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Mentoring youth to shape the future of agriculture and food
26 Feb 2017by Courtney Paisley
Mentoring youth for agricultural transformation - The 2017 Young Africa Works Summit
07 Feb 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
BEYOND FARMING: Maximizing Greennovation Potentials
03 Feb 2017by John Olabisi Agboola
My Journey in the farm
30 Jan 2017by Alphaxrd Gitau Ndungu
How I built my company through mentorship
30 Jan 2017by Allan Migaili Avugwi
The transformative power of agricultural mentorship
27 Jan 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
The Best of YPARD's 10 years anniversary! (part 2)
09 Jan 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
YPARD Team’s Online Hangout series: more interaction for more capacity
09 Jan 2017by Marina Cherbonnier
Meeting, staying and working together: YPARD 10 Years Anniversary Celebrations the DRC way!
07 Jan 2017by Hervé Bondonga
The Business of Agriculture and Funding – What Works for Young People?
06 Jan 2017by John Olabisi Agboola
How can we support you better? - YPARD 2017
05 Jan 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
Welcoming YPARD Web4Knowledge interns: Lemien Saka and former intern Husein Shahadu
05 Jan 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
New faces for YPARD Global Communications
04 Jan 2017by Marina Cherbonnier
2017: bringing our achievements forward!
03 Jan 2017by Courtney Paisley
Four young professionals; one passion: agriculture
07 Dec 2016by Marina Cherbonnier
Mapping the Future Scenarios of Land Degradation and Restoration
06 Dec 2016by Oluwabunmi David Ajilore
Innovation in agriculture with ideas
06 Dec 2016by Raymond Erick Zvavanyange
Interconnection: a youth response to rural-urban and international migration
06 Dec 2016by Marina Cherbonnier
Young agriculturalists propose their agenda for healthy diets
06 Dec 2016by Marina Cherbonnier
Nutrition and Food Security Key to Hunger Reduction
01 Dec 2016by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
Going places with Agriculture
01 Dec 2016by Norman N/a Munyengwa
Youth Network in Agriculture: we connect and rejuvenate the world
29 Nov 2016by Marina Cherbonnier
Welcoming YPARD Africa Networking and Communications Intern : Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
28 Nov 2016by Emmie Kio Wachira
Welcoming YPARD Burkina Faso Country Representative: Minata Coulibaly
28 Nov 2016by Emmie Kio Wachira
My take home experiences from the Global Landscapes Forum 2016
28 Nov 2016by Abdelali Ouhri
New synergies for YPARD Italy
27 Nov 2016by Virginia Maria Cravero
Business advisory model: A necessary tool for Smallholder Farmers
20 Nov 2016by Omonjiade Odiagbe Ogudo
Adding more value to agro sector with new ICT tool
17 Nov 2016by Anil Regmi
Farm Fresh Marketing local products through an e-commerce platform
13 Nov 2016by Elisabetta Demartis
Welcoming YPARD Netherlands Country Representative: Ingrid Flink
11 Nov 2016by Stacy Hammond

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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.