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Welcoming the new YPARD Steering Committee Chair and Vice Chair
06 Aug 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
15 latest developments in the revised YPARD Charter
06 Aug 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
Creating opportunities for rural youth: The moment, the challenges and the future
05 Aug 2019by Emily Ongus
Our Annual Report for 2018 is out!
02 Aug 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
YPARD Tanzania: Call for Country Representative
02 Aug 2019by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Welcoming YPARD Kenya Representative: Phidel Hazel Arunga
02 Aug 2019by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Shining the YPARD light at the FAO conference Youth side event
01 Aug 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira
Leveraging global experiences for Africa’s agricultural development
31 Jul 2019by Yemi Adeyeye
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Keron Bascombe
30 Jul 2019by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Sebastian Pedraza Paez
30 Jul 2019by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Lako Mbouendeu Stephane
30 Jul 2019by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming YPARD Brazil country representative: Marina Demaria Venâncio
30 Jul 2019by Stacy Hammond
Welcoming YPARD Azerbaijan country representative: Parviz Yusifov
30 Jul 2019by Stacy Hammond
Driving the food agenda: partnerships for a common goal
29 Jul 2019by Yemi Adeyeye
Welcoming the Communication Focal Person for YPARD Rwanda
28 Jul 2019by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
YPARD representation at the Rome Based Agencies Youth Council
25 Jul 2019by Emmie Kio Wachira

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20 Jun 2019
Using mobile apps to fight the fall armyworm: Lokwa Mila Giresse
20 Jun 2019
Young innovator develops bicycle-powered maize cleaning machine to help schoolchildren
20 Jun 2019
Hildegarde Dukunde brings innovative solution to safeguard maize storage
20 Jun 2019
Increasing maize resistance to parasitic weeds: Admire Shayanowako
20 Jun 2019
Our Future is Here – Join the campaign
30 May 2019
Lesson learned from two days’ workshop
27 May 2019by Dikshya Shilpakar
Winners of 2019 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Africa announced
27 May 2019
African Agriculture through the Business Lens
21 May 2019by John Olabisi Agboola
FARA receives CSIR Award
21 May 2019
Boosting agricultural productivity through modern technologies
13 May 2019by Farotimi Olaoluwa
Fate of sunflower production in Pakistan
23 Apr 2019by Zohaib Ur rehman Bughio
Zero hunger: A case for bio-fortification
10 Apr 2019by Zohaib Ur rehman Bughio
Agriculture: A Bangladesh perspective
02 Apr 2019by Nur e Kutubul Alam
Wastewater: a useful resource for agriculture
01 Apr 2019by Zohaib Ur rehman Bughio

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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.