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Agricultural Education in Developing Nations!
05 Aug 2012by Rashad Aziz Hegazy
"Seeing Thoughts" video contest - moving onto capturing youth stories into documentaries!
03 Aug 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
FANRPAN Youth Case Studies Twitter Campaign starting on 1st August 2012!
31 Jul 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
Counting down before the International Youth Day (IYD) 2012!
31 Jul 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity in Mauritius, 9-13 July 2012
16 Jul 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
Ending the Academic year with New projects for next year! - YPARD Sierra Leone's feedback
13 Jul 2012by Dans Kiamue Johnson
Some tips to new Agriculture Graduates on the job market
11 Jul 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
The African Economic Outlook 2012 focusing on Youth Employment - YPARD Brief
09 Jul 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
Youth unemployment in Africa – enhancing appropriate skills and job creation!
09 Jul 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
Young scientists at the TWAS/BioVisionAlexandria.NXT 2012
27 Jun 2012by Atul Dogra
4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20: Focus on youth
21 Jun 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
Rio+20 View on Empowering Small Holder Farmers
19 Jun 2012by James K Muriithi
Formalising and strengthening YPARD in South Africa
19 Jun 2012by Shakespear Mudombi
Farm households’ livelihood diversification and its implications
07 Jun 2012by Luke Kipkurgat Korir
YoBloCo Awards: The beginning of a journey...
01 Jun 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
How to apply for an opportunity—successfully!
31 May 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
Welcoming YPARD South Africa representative: Shakespear Mudombi
31 May 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
My Experience at the All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Ondo State Chapter Meeting
27 May 2012by Olawale Isaiah Ojo
Ways Nigeria Universities can optimize the student industrial working experience scheme (SIWES) Program to boost agricultural research and development (ARD)
25 May 2012by Olawale Isaiah Ojo
New farming technologies the solution to food security in Africa.
21 May 2012by James Kamore Munyoroku
YPARD-Sierra Leone Recent Awareness and Meeting Up-date
18 May 2012by Dans Kiamue Johnson
My thoughts on Sustainable Development...
17 May 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
Youths, Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation: Reconsidering Our Deepest Beliefs
02 May 2012by Maxwell Gibson Mkondiwa
Youth reshaping their future through agriculture
01 May 2012by Olawale Isaiah Ojo
Strengthening YPARD networks with 3 new country representatives!
01 May 2012by Marina Cherbonnier
Entrepreneurship and Agricultural Development
30 Apr 2012by Arthur Chinsman-williams
Kenya’s young to digitalize farming
26 Apr 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally
Role of youth in farming and food discussed at an international conference
23 Apr 2012by James K Muriithi
Rural youth shatter the myth of farming as a poor man's profession
18 Apr 2012by James K Muriithi
Food wastage. Is there a way to prevent it?
17 Apr 2012by Nawsheen Hosenally

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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.