ICTs

"Making agriculture attractive for the African Youth" - An interview with the YPARD Director
10 Nov 2018by Thembani Malapela
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Orange Telecom -- Orange Social Venture Prize 2016
Open until20 Sep 2016
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Junior Programme Associate Youth, ICTs and Agriculture
Open until12 Sep 2015
Open Blog Contest for Nepalese Citizens: "ICTs in Nepalese Agriculture"
26 Jun 2015by Madan Poudel
Youth, ICT and Agriculture CTA experience and perspectives
05 Nov 2014
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#ICT4AG Handprint Challenge
27 Oct 2014by Bivekananda Mahat
Regional virtual consultations-Africa. Communication for Development, Community Media and ICTs for Family Farming and Rural Development -- Final Report
19 Oct 2014
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Virtual consultations on “Communication for Development, Community Media and ICTs for Family Farming and Rural Development in Asia Pacific”, Final Report
02 Oct 2014
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The SMART Water Grid International Conference 2014
Open until29 Sep 2014
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Call for papers - Agricultural Informatics 2014 International Conference, 13-15 November 2014. Debrecen, Hungary
Open until09 Oct 2014
Agricultural Informatics 2014 International Conference - Future Internet and ICT Innovation in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
12 Nov 2014 to 14 Nov 2014in University of Debrecen
ICTs to solve agricultural issues in Nepal
26 Nov 2013by Hridaya Kandel
Emerging voices in ICT and agriculture in the ACP
22 Oct 2012
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Growing Craze of Nepalese youth's interest on ICTs for agriculture
04 Oct 2012
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Call for Proposals 14th World Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD)
Open until30 Nov 2012
Nigerian Govt To Give 10 Million Phones To Farmers
26 Sep 2012
Farmers bet on mobile advisory for crop sowing
30 Aug 2012
Solomon Elorm Allavi, the Idealist Young Entrepreneur in Ghana
22 Aug 2012
Ivorian agricultural scientists open up their research
22 Aug 2012
Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity, Moi University, Town Campus, Kenya
11 Nov 2012 to 15 Nov 2012
- Call for participation
Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity, Moi University, Town Campus, Kenya
Open until08 Sep 2012
Enhacing youth employment opportunities: ICT Intergration in YRCs for Skills Training
16 Aug 2012
Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm
06 Aug 2012
- Call for participation
Competition to Examine Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Agriculture For Pacific Youth And Smallholder Agriculture Enterprises
Open until30 Aug 2012
ICT can bring revolution in agriculture sector
04 Jul 2012
Spore Magazine Issue No 159: Juin-Juillet 2012
21 Jun 2012
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Spore Magazine Issue No 159: June-July 2012
21 Jun 2012
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Knowledge is power for smallholder farmers
16 Jun 2012
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ICT Update - Call for articles - Women and ICTs
Open until29 Jun 2012
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FRIDA 2012 awards - Opportunity for youth in Latin American and Caribbean region!
Open until14 Jun 2012

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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.