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Call for volunteers to translate YPARD information materials
12 Feb 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
Appel à candidatures : Représentant de pays YPARD Bénin
05 Feb 2019by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
How can we support you better? YPARD 2019 Members' survey
05 Feb 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
Call for application: Youth Shaping Sustainable Food Systems Workshop in Eastern Africa
03 Feb 2019by Zaake Paul
Taking these “F-words“ seriously: Food and future
28 Jan 2019by Pius Hiwe
Call for Nominees for the 2019 Maize Youth Innovators Awards – Africa
21 Jan 2019by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
YPARD Solomon Islands shines at the Pacific Agrihack competition
18 Jan 2019by Hika Joseph
International poultry symposium: Moments and memories
17 Jan 2019by Subash Belbase
Agribusiness adventure: A young Hungarian farmer's story
14 Jan 2019by Zsóka Fekete
Making an agricultural living – YPARD Serbia with Toplički izvor
14 Jan 2019by Julijana El omari
Welcome to 2019: Looking forward and beyond
03 Jan 2019by Yemi Adeyeye
YPARD at Tropentag 2018 - Sharing information and connecting early career scientist
18 Dec 2018by Stacy Hammond
13th Asian Maize Conference: Surmounting future challenges
22 Nov 2018by Samjhana Khanal
One Asian Youth Leadership Forum: A union of continents
22 Nov 2018by Mamiya Binte Ahsan
Join the FAO/YPARD youth interactive event
20 Nov 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
A knowledge sharing workshop on climate change
19 Nov 2018by Saara Ranabhat

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In other news

Achieving greater impact together
05 Feb 2019
Shifting to commercial farming; the role of credit
13 Nov 2018by Cosmas Wacal
Scaling-up small agri-food production system for zero hunger
05 Nov 2018by Ayodeji Rauf
Agri-entrepreneur dances to his own rhythm in Ghana
22 Oct 2018
Beyond selfies: African youth vow to restore the continent’s landscapes
21 Oct 2018by Cathy Watson
Beauty with an agricultural purpose
10 Oct 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Youth volunteerism: building capacity among young people in agriculture
08 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Building support system among rural farmers in Africa
08 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Building resilience among rural farmers in Nigeria
05 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Water Conservation: Key to Sustainable Food Production
05 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Boosting agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa
28 Sep 2018by Kambaji Orphe
Agri-cooperatives and institution for rural development
10 Sep 2018by Cristina Conea
Nagarkrishi: Social entrepreneur initiative for better urban food and health
09 Sep 2018by Abu Yousuf Shihab
Empowering Ghana’s young entrepreneur farmers to start cocoa farms
03 Sep 2018by Violette hilda Nalutaaya
Young farmer becomes mobile phone ambassador
30 Aug 2018by Evana Rahman
Urban food security and consumption
16 Aug 2018by Abu Yousuf Shihab

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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.