Funding Opportunities

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The unusual solvers competition
Open until31 Aug 2019
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Lincoln University Agriculture & life sciences faculty summer scholarships
Open until03 Sep 2019
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Call for Reporting Grant Applications: Climate Change Impacts and Youth-Initiated Solutions in Nile Basin Countries
Open until30 Jun 2019
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Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA); Inaugural call for applications
Open until30 Jun 2019
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Masters scholarships for applied animal behaviour and animal welfare
Open until29 Mar 2019
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Access Agriculture — Training for Young Agricultural Entrepreneurs
Open until21 Mar 2019
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — Scholarship for PhD Students
Open until22 Mar 2019
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University of Science and Technology of Hanoi — Masters Studies 2019-2020
Open until19 Jul 2019
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World Bank — Graduate Scholarship Program
Open until11 Apr 2019
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Postdoctoral fellowships for food systems of the future
Open until30 Apr 2019
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STAARS fellowship accepting applications for 2019
Open until01 Mar 2019
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Young entrepreneur challenge fund
Open until21 Mar 2019
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LIVINGFIELDS PROJECT - Graduates In Vegetable Farming Initiative
Open until15 Feb 2019
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International innovation award for sustainable food and agriculture
Open until28 Feb 2019
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Earth Journalism Network — Media Workshop on Climate Change Reporting
Open until01 Jan 2019
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University of Queensland in Australia — Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarships 2019
Open until15 Jan 2019
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UNESCO — Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management 2019
Open until20 Jan 2019
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Government of India — Australia-India Strategic Research Fund
Open until23 Jan 2019
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Swedish International Development Agency — Training Workshop: Mine Water and Mine Waste Management
Open until24 Jan 2019
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Nigeria Energy Forum — Africa Energy Innovation Competition 2019
Open until31 Jan 2019
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Tropical Biology Association — Specialist Course: Citizen Science in Africa
Open until31 Jan 2019
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark — Research Grants 2019
Open until01 Feb 2019
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Business Partnership Facility — Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
Open until12 Feb 2019
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Van Tienhoven Foundation — Small Grants for Biodiversity Conservation
Open until14 Feb 2019
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Die Presse — MSc Scholarships in Environmental Technology & International Affairs
Open until18 Jan 2019
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Action for Nature — International Young Eco-Hero Awards 2019
Open until28 Feb 2019
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UK Department for International Development — Productive Energy Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open until28 Feb 2019
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Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area — Sustainable Groundwater Management
Open until28 Feb 2019
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Association of Zoos and Aquariums — Conservation Grants Fund 2019
Open until15 Mar 2019
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National Geographic Society — Early-Career Grant
Open until09 Oct 2019

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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.