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Innovator fellowship 2020
Open until14 Jun 2020
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2019 Young champions of the earth
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Farmer’s knowledge platform: promotion of innovations in local languages
20 Apr 2018by Evana Rahman
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Swedish Institute Alexandria — Mediterranean Water Heroes Contest
Open until15 Jan 2018
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Sponsorship Opportunity to showcase at 6th EU-Africa Business Forum - Startup Fair
Open until20 Oct 2017
Real growth is slow and steady
19 Mar 2017by Keron Bascombe
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U.S. Agency for International Development — Asian Women Entrepreneurs in Clean Energy
Open until30 Mar 2017
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Call for Applications to the Young Enterprise Training Programme Now Open
Open until02 Nov 2016
Young farmers are the future of Europe's agriculture
02 Aug 2016
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Orange Telecom -- Orange Social Venture Prize 2016
Open until20 Sep 2016
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Climate Technology Initiative (CTI PFAN) -- Clean Energy in Asia
Open until19 Jun 2016
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Global Village Energy Partnership -- Energy Enterprises in Africa
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The Rising Tide Foundation 2016 Essay Competition for African Undergraduates
Open until16 May 2016
Applications for the GCM Global Youth Summit 2016 are now open! Fully funded!
24 Jul 2016 to 30 Jul 2016in Switzerland
- Funding
University of Michigan -- MobiPrize 2015
Open until14 Aug 2015
Complete CTA Survey on young farmers and young agricultural entrepreneurs in ACP countries
04 May 2015
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2014 SEED Award: Call for applications now open
Open until07 Apr 2014
- Call for participation
Call for Applications: The GrowthHub's 2nd Accelerator Program 2013
Open until14 Jul 2013
- Funding
Orange Telecom -- Orange African Social Venture Prize 2013
Open until19 Sep 2013

Youth success stories

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

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.

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XV World Forestry Congress
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Smart farming innovations for small-scale producers
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entrepreneurs

Innovator fellowship 2020

2019 Young champions of the earth

Farmer’s knowledge platform: promotion of innovations in local languages

Swedish Institute Alexandria — Mediterranean Water Heroes Contest

Sponsorship Opportunity to showcase at 6th EU-Africa Business Forum - Startup Fair

Real growth is slow and steady

U.S. Agency for International Development — Asian Women Entrepreneurs in Clean Energy

Call for Applications to the Young Enterprise Training Programme Now Open

Young farmers are the future of Europe's agriculture

Orange Telecom -- Orange Social Venture Prize 2016

Climate Technology Initiative (CTI PFAN) -- Clean Energy in Asia

Global Village Energy Partnership -- Energy Enterprises in Africa

The Rising Tide Foundation 2016 Essay Competition for African Undergraduates

Applications for the GCM Global Youth Summit 2016 are now open! Fully funded!

University of Michigan -- MobiPrize 2015

Complete CTA Survey on young farmers and young agricultural entrepreneurs in ACP countries

2014 SEED Award: Call for applications now open

Call for Applications: The GrowthHub's 2nd Accelerator Program 2013

Orange Telecom -- Orange African Social Venture Prize 2013

ICSD 2021 : 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 8 - 9 September Rome, Italy

XV World Forestry Congress

Smart farming innovations for small-scale producers

Call for applications: YPARD Director

YIL 2021 project teams

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