Innovation

- Call for participation
Excellence and Innovation in Sweetpotato: Communication for Change Award
Open until31 Jul 2019
Les énergies renouvelables, une opportunité d’investissement pour la RDC ?
02 Jul 2019by Lemien Sakalunga Mwanavita
Young innovator develops bicycle-powered maize cleaning machine to help schoolchildren
20 Jun 2019
Increasing maize resistance to parasitic weeds: Admire Shayanowako
20 Jun 2019
YPARD Nepal blog competition
03 Jun 2019
Boosting agricultural productivity through modern technologies
13 May 2019by Farotimi Olaoluwa
A Tajik tale of agricultural innovation
13 May 2019by Khosiyatkhon Mirislomovna Komilova
- Funding
International innovation award for sustainable food and agriculture
Open until28 Feb 2019
Rice on the rise: Promoting consumption of energy enriched rice products
19 Nov 2018by A.g.m sofi uddin Mahamud
Save the date: Youth as drivers of innovation interactive event
12 Nov 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
- Call for participation
Call for nominees for the 2018 Maize-Asia Youth Innovators Awards
Open until31 Aug 2018
The untold YPARDian stories; Ag innovation showcase
21 Jun 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
- Funding
La 3e édition des Prix Jeunesse Francophone 3535
Open until21 Jun 2018
- Call for participation
Young sustainable impact program 2018!
Open until15 Feb 2018
Are young professionals ready to engage in Agricultural Innovation Systems?
04 Oct 2017by Courtney Paisley
- Funding
Hogan Lovells — Community Solar Innovation Awards 2017
Open until15 Aug 2017
YPARD Burundi à la tête de la Communauté d’Innovation Jeunes et Agribusiness au Burundi
03 Jun 2017by Guy fleury Giramahoro
- Call for participation
Orange Social Venture Prize 2017
Open until05 Jun 2017
- Call for participation
Prix Orange de l'Entrepreneur Social 2017
Open until05 Jun 2017
- Funding
Agritech: l'appel à projet pour innover du champ à l'assiette
Open until16 Mar 2017
- Funding
Southern Africa Network for Biosciences — Innovative Solutions in Nutrition
Open until27 Mar 2017
Rester swag et émerger dans l’agriculture
07 Mar 2017by Picasso Makofi
Kenya: quand "iHub " vole au secours des start-up africaines
28 Feb 2017
Ghana’s TroTro Tractor raises $50k from KOSMOS Energy
21 Feb 2017
DARAL TECHNOLOGIE: des Solutions numériques pour les problèmes du bétails
20 Feb 2017
- Funding
Feed the Future — Data-Driven Farming Prize
Open until05 Apr 2017
Incredible: Farmer in Burundi discovers an innovative method of storing tomatoes and preventing spoilage!
16 Feb 2017
Avec Moins De 3 $, il bâtit Un Empire Sur Les Epinards
13 Feb 2017
- Funding
Young Innovators in Agribusiness — Postharvest Technologies Competition 2017
- Funding
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — Momentum for Change 2017

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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.