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 As part of the Africa Agribusiness and Science Week 2023 (AASW8), the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the Global Forum for Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is organizing The AgriYouth Africa Hackathon under the theme, “Digital Technologies (ICT4Ag): The Pathway to Engaging the African Youth in African Agricultural Research and Development (AR4D)”.

The main objective of this hackathon is to provide a platform to enable and empower young agricultural professionals in Africa to shape sustainable food systems through the proposal of ICT-based solutions for Africa’s agriculture. The hackathon will further serve as a platform for young professionals to be mentored on ways of improving their ideas and proposals for the provision of sustainable and scalable ICT-based solutions. This will serve as a skills enhancement mechanism to increase the youth’s access to capacity development opportunities.

Following a call for entries from across Africa, 86 youth-led projects made submissions in line with the sub-themes of the 8th AASW:

  • Science-business Nexus to Boost Intra-African Trade
  • Nutrition-Sensitive and Gender-Responsive Food Systems
  • Climate Resilience, Natural Resources Management and Farming Systems Transition
  • Knowledge Management, Digitalization, and Youth Entrepreneurship

After a thorough competitive evaluation process by youth engagement  and innovation experts, the following projects (in no particular order) have been shortlisted:

  1. The Greater Green Project, Zimbabwe
  2. EssyMart – MyFarm, Uganda
  3. Tilapia Cage Pilot Project, Democratic Republic of Congo
  4. Crop2Cash, Nigeria
  5. Onion Doctor, Kenya
  6. ChampiTech, Uganda
  7. Agri-Business Activities- ABA, Gabon

Three winners and three honorable mentions will be announced during the AASW8. Stay tuned for the results and to learn more about the projects.

Thank you to all who sent in their amazing youth-led projects. We look forward to engaging with you in upcoming initiatives.

Hearty congratulation to the shortlisted teams.

 

El pasado 27 octubre, Kasandra Rodríguez, Ing. Agrónoma y Analista Estratégica del Área de Representación de Ypard Perú, participó del evento “Jornadas de Investigación CIEDA”, el cual es organizado por el Centro de Investigación en Economía Agrícola y Desarrollo Agroempresarial (CIEDA), perteneciente a la Facultad de Ciencias Agroalimentarias de la Universidad de Costa Rica. El evento fue un espacio en el que se presentaron los trabajos de investigación más renombrados de dicha facultad. Además, se dieron a conocer oportunidades extra-curriculares para estudiantes y profesionales de las ciencias agrarias de ese país.

Kasandra tuvo la oportunidad de participar como expositora, presentando la labor de YPARD para América Latina y el Caribe y el capítulo Perú. En ese sentido, se dio a conocer el trabajo que viene realizando nuestra red mundial de jóvenes profesionales en materia de promoción de proyectos de emprendimiento e investigación con el fin de aportar a procesos de desarrollo agrario rural.

Nos sentimos muy orgullosos de contar con profesionales cuyo amor y compromiso por el servicio voluntario profesional hace que poco a poco empecemos a abrirnos camino en espacios regionales tan importantes como son las jornadas de investigación CIEDA ¡Desde aquí felicitamos a Kasandra por su gran participación, es un orgullo para toda la familia YPARD!

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YPARD Peru at the Research Conference of the Faculty of Agrifood Sciences of the University of Costa Rica

On October 27th, Kasandra Rodriguez, Agronomist and Strategic Analyst of the Representation Area of Ypard Peru, participated in the event "Jornadas de Investigación CIEDA", which is organized by the Center for Research in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Development (CIEDA) of the Faculty of Agri-Food Sciences of the University of Costa Rica. The event was a space in which the most renowned research works of this faculty were presented. In addition, extra-curricular opportunities for students and professionals in the agricultural sciences of that country were presented.

Kasandra had the opportunity to participate as a speaker, presenting the work of YPARD for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Peru Chapter. In this regard, she presented the work that is being done by our global network of young professionals in promoting entrepreneurship and research projects in order to contribute to rural agricultural development processes.

We are very proud to have professionals whose love and commitment to professional volunteer service makes that little by little we begin to make our way in regional spaces as important as the CIEDA research conferences. From here we congratulate Kasandra for her great participation, she is a source of pride for the entire YPARD family!

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The ambition of OSIRIS is to reform the R&I (Research and Innovation) system such that reproducibility is more accepted, practised, and recognized within the global scientific practice by 2026 (i.e, ~30% of all EU researchers and ~50% of all other stakeholders such as funders and publishers). The project will develop and test effective, evidence-based solutions for the reproducibility crisis across various stakeholders in policy and research practice, embed reproducibility in the strategy and design of research projects, and create a collaborative community of stakeholders that will aid in educating and implementing better reproducible research practices.

Project title: OSIRIS (Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science)

The role of CZU in the project: Our role is especially in the leadership of WP6: Dissemination and Communication together with YPARD EUROPE. Furthermore, our role is in the cross-sectional activities, such as Interventions to improve reproducibility for funders and journals, Interventions to improve reproducibility for researchers and institutes, training, and guidance.

Our team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hynek Roubík, Dr. Stacy Denise Hammond Hammond, Ing. Jan Staš

Team lead: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hynek Roubík (leader), Dr. Stacy Denise Hammond Hammond (co-leader)

Time period: 2023-2026 (48 months)

Project budget: 2M EUR

CZU budget: 225,375 EUR

Consortium: OSIRIS is composed of an interdisciplinary consortium of members from 10 institutions in 7 different European countries. University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) - NL, Academic Medical Centre (AMC)- NL, KU Leuven (KUL) - BE, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRFMN) - IT, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science (MATE) - HU, Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU) - CZ, Young professionals for agricultural development (YPARD) - CZ, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm): Organization for ethical and responsible Inserm research (INSERM) - FR, University of Oxford (UOXF) / AllTrials - UK, Sense about science (SAS)- UK.

OSIRIS Team: The consortium consists of coordinator UMCU (led by Dr. Inge Stegeman), the front-running Dutch university on Open Science, and a pan-European group of research entities and outreach organisations. OSIRIS's strength lies in uniting researchers that have a unique Open Science (OS) focus (e.g., vice-coordinator Dr. Van den Eynden, KUL) and methods researchers (e.g., Dr. Mariska Leeflang, AMC and prof. Ravaud, INSERM) and researchers that practice OS in their own research, such as Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hynek Roubík (CZU).

Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-41 — Increasing the reproducibility of scientific results

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Con éxito y satisfacción, terminó el pasado 23 de octubre, el taller presencial ‘Empoderando a mujeres jóvenes rurales lideresas medioambientales’, organizado por MÁXIMA, proyecto ejecutado por Ypard Perú.

El taller reunió, durante tres días, a veinte jóvenes lideresas rurales de diferentes territorios del Perú, en Chosica (Lima). Una de las veinte jóvenes participantes fue Yduvina Pizarro Córdova, representante de la Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios y Artesanos de Colcabamba, Cajamarca (Perú), quien compartió sus experiencias como agricultora de 19 variedades de ñuña- que siembra en su parcela- y además dio a conocer su labor como artesana en telar de Kallwa.

“Hemos venido de diferentes territorios para traer nuestras experiencias y aprender de nosotras mismas, para poder progresar siendo parte de la red MÁXIMA”, indicó Yduvina durante el taller.

Este evento fue una oportunidad de renovación, tal como lo resalta Mercedes, una de las participantes. “Me voy renovada y nutrida. Necesitamos el apoyo entre nosotros. Me doy cuenta que no estoy sola; las tengo a todas ustedes. Les agradezco de todo corazón por todo lo que me han dado estos cortos días”.

Por su parte, Eliana Antezana, miembro del equipo organizador y Coordinadora de Incidencia Política en YPard Perú, manifestó su agrado por ser miembro del equipo organizador del taller. “El objetivo es poder tejer redes y sentires para poder seguir fortaleciendo los procesos de incidencia en nuestros territorios”, comentó.

Así, también, Damaris Herrera Salazar, Coordinadora del Proyecto Máxima, refirió que “El taller ha sido una oportunidad para congregar jóvenes líderes y, así, nutran entre ellas sus iniciativas. Reunir mujeres rurales desde diferentes caseríos del país ha sido un esfuerzo titánico, no solo para el equipo organizador sino para ellas mismas. Para muchas era la primera vez que salían de sus comunidades y venían a Lima”.

Desde MÁXIMA agradecemos a todas las organizaciones que hicieron posible este taller.

Ejecuta: YPard Perú.

Co-financiadores: Global Environments Network y la International Land Coalition (América Latina y el Caribe).

Aliados: Alsakuy Agroecológica, Diócesis de Chosica, Caritas Chosica – Pastoral Social, SER, Eco-Razonar, OXFAM, Fomento de la vida (FOVIDA), Slow Food, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú- PUCP, Eclosio, Asociación Nacional de Productores Ecológicos (ANPE).

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