Women

- Funding
West African Research Association — Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowships
Open until10 Oct 2018
Why are women so important to agriculture?
30 Jun 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
- Jobs
IFAD call for interest: research and technical report writers - consultant roster
Open until15 Jun 2020
- Funding
Toptal — Scholarships for Women
Open until13 Sep 2017
- Funding
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development — Mountain Prize 2018
Open until30 Apr 2018
- Call for participation
She entrepreneurs leadership programme 2018 in Sweden
Open until04 Oct 2017
- Jobs
Kenya Community Development Foundation — Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund for Kenyan Women
Open until29 Jul 2017
- Funding
Right Sharing of World Resources — Seed Grants for Women’s Micro-Credit Projects
- Funding
FRIDA — Climate and Environmental Justice for Women
Open until22 Jul 2017
- Funding
Yves Rocher Foundation — Terre des Femmes
Open until29 Sep 2017
- Funding
Global Affairs Canada — Climate and Agriculture in Senegal
Open until30 Aug 2017
Rural women and decent work in Egypt
13 May 2017by Assem Reda Abu hatab
- Funding
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative — Award for Women in Wheat Research 2017
Open until29 Oct 2017
- Funding
European Commission — Women and Sustainable Energy
- Funding
U.S. Agency for International Development — Asian Women Entrepreneurs in Clean Energy
Open until30 Mar 2017
- Funding
Coca-Cola Foundation — Water Projects for Communities
- Funding
Call for Applications: PhD scholarship positions at the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) in Social and Agricultural Sciences
Open until29 Nov 2016
- Funding
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development — Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research for Change
Open until29 Oct 2017
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Schlumberger Foundation -- Funding for Women in PhD and Post-Doctoral Studies
Open until17 Nov 2016
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American Association for the Advancement of University Women -- International Fellowships
Open until30 Nov 2016
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Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) -- Professional Training in Israel 2016
Open until03 Sep 2016
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Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation -- STEM Prize for Young Africans
Open until30 Jul 2016
- Funding
Associated country women of the world---Project Funding
Open until29 Jun 2016
- Funding
Ignite Agribusiness Fellowship for Women
Open until02 Jul 2016
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Maypole Fund -- Small Grants to Women
Open until30 Jan 2016
- Funding
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) -- Award for Women in Wheat Research 2015
Open until30 Sep 2015
- Funding
Elsevier Foundation -- Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists 2016
Open until31 Aug 2015
- Jobs
AWARD Fellowships job position
Open until22 Apr 2015
- Funding
Coca-Cola Foundation -- Community Support Includes Water Projects
- Call for participation
2015 Call for Global Community Champions for Women's Economic Empowerment
Open until28 Jan 2015

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Youth success stories

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

5 years of YPARD: a life-changing journey

"Being a YPARD representative gave me so many empowering opportunities, but also a chance to empower others" Testimonial by Ivana Radic Jean highlighting her experience and journey in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Serbia community since February 2013.

YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!

In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.

Good-bye from YPARD Nepal: Creating a space for young leaders

This testimonial by Dinesh Panday highlights his experience in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Nepal community since 2012. He is currently a doctoral graduate research assistant (2016-2019) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former YPARD Nepal country representative.

A season of innovation

The climate-smart irrigation system was designed with the aim of addressing these challenges; by collecting rainwater, transferring it below the soil surface and using it during the time of low rainfall thus making water available and accessible for perennial plants all year round.

Climate resilient agriculture and producer-consumer justice through ICT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 was created to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to ensure climate resilient agriculture and ICT based business promotional interventions from producer to consumer level. Youth, therefore, can play a supporting role to increase awareness and promote the agenda of SDG for agricultural sustainability to make sure others are aware of it.

From nowhere to somewhere; YPARD made a way

Marc Ghislain tells about all the changing scenes in his life as a young professional in agriculture: the anxiety in choosing a profession in agriculture and how his engagement with YPARD helped him find his feet in the agricultural sector.

A non-traditional career path

I strongly support and believe in an inclusive and equitable quality education together with lifelong learning opportunities for all. It is very important that we start to facilitate more flexible career paths in science if we want to encourage diversity and creativity. Being a lifelong learner is a value of sustainable self-development. It opens the door to life-changing, rewarding, fulfilling and continuous growth.

Easier said than done: Gender equality and women empowerment

The role of young people in helping shift gender perceptions is paramount. We can no longer employ tradition and culture as excuses for allowing basic inequalities between genders to occur and to keep perpetuating themselves. We need to acknowledge and cherish culture, but also acknowledge that culture is not a static entity and that it can, and must, evolve towards a more equal society.

Believe in sustainability, food security, fight for the hungry: My Credo

In an era where population, technologies and modernization are fast growing, meeting up with the basic food needs of the population worldwide is one of the greatest challenges nations and international institutions are witnessing. Marc Ghislain shares his views on how the young people can be part of the solution and more importantly in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal number two.