Young people

YPARD Serbia: Enhancing visibility through web media
02 Aug 2018by Julijana El omari
Young people in a changing world: Youth and Rural Advisory Services
03 Jun 2018
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Apply for the LEAP summit international conference!
15 Mar 2018 to 17 Mar 2018
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Join STEP dialogue-contest on climate change
Open until20 Oct 2017
Rural transformation, cereals and youth in Africa: What role for international agricultural research?
01 Sep 2017
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AGRA: A new musical
31 Mar 2017by Jim leandro Pil Cano
My career journey through the YPARD Mentorship
03 Mar 2017by Emily Ongus
Beyond the hives
02 Mar 2017
A food-secure future: engaging youth in global agriculture
27 Feb 2017
The Business of Agriculture and Funding – What Works for Young People?
06 Jan 2017by John Olabisi Agboola
10 tips for preparing your CV
25 Nov 2016
International study fair Prague 2016
24 Oct 2016in Prague
EFYI’16 – European Forum of Young Innovators
23 Oct 2016 to 24 Oct 2016
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BeNovative! Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Youth Workers
Open until30 Sep 2016
Call for Applications - The Youth Ag- Summit
08 Oct 2017 to 12 Oct 2017in Brussels
AGRO - Sustainable Agricultural Entrepreneurship for Young Workers in Africa and Europe
11 Aug 2016
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Win a Trip to COP22 with Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change
Open until29 Aug 2016
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Se busca: Jóvenes comprometidos con el desarrollo para ser oradores en el XIV Congreso Forestal Mundial
Open until20 Jun 2015
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Recherchés : jeunes passionnés pour prendre la parole au Congrès forestier mondial
Open until20 Jun 2015
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Wanted: Young, passionate people to speak up at the World Forestry Congress
Open until20 Jun 2015
"Young people need to get engaged in the policy sector, they need to be mobilized"
08 May 2015by Amelia Ochoa
Infographic: Who applied for the mentoring program?
06 May 2015by Michelle Kovacevic
Young people in Agriculture: Aspirations and Value Chains
23 Apr 2015
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba!
20 Jan 2015by Amelia Ochoa
#YouthEngage tweetathon: join the worldwide Twitter chat on 24 October
22 Oct 2014
11 ways young people have revolutionized the climate debate
11 Aug 2014
Rural youth in Brazil: An interconnected network of ideas
27 Jun 2014by Rebeca Carmo batista Souza
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Call for applications: Youth Advocacy Group for the Global Education First Initiative
Open until29 Nov 2013
Who will take the place of the aging African farmer?
11 Oct 2013by Samuel Anya Kalu
Philanthro-teens and Social Good: Young people driving technology
01 Oct 2013

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Youth success stories

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.

La lutte contre la pauvreté : motivation, passion, profession et engagement!

Aimé Kazika describes his engagement with other young people to raise awareness so that they become more involved in the agricultural sector within the African and Congolese context.