Sustainability

Youth in Landscapes Camp
27 Oct 2019 to 31 Oct 2019in Accra International Conference Centre
YPARD Nepal blog competition
03 Jun 2019
YPARD Nepal participates in campaigning for conservation workshop
09 Sep 2018by Subash Belbase
A case for sustainability from a fellow's perspective
25 Jul 2018by Shweta Adhikari
Free online e-learning: Designing sustainable food systems
27 Jun 2018
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Join us! YPARD Netherlands meet up on Agri(re)solutions for 2018!
25 Jan 2018in Jozef eten & drinken
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University of Bergen — PhD Course on Food Security
Open until15 Feb 2018
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Rainforest Alliance — Kleinhans Fellowship for Research in Community Forestry
Open until28 Feb 2019
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Infiniti’s green factor design Contest 2017
Open until30 Jul 2017
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Request for proposals: PEGASuS – Biodiversity and Natural assets
Open until04 Jun 2017
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Research Associate in Livestock Production, Environment and Sustainability Analysis
Open until29 May 2017
Youth Encounter on Sustainability Costa Rica 2017
26 Aug 2017 to 07 Sep 2017
EU green week 2017
29 May 2017 to 02 Jun 2017
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Swedish International Development Agency — International Training for Africans in Urban Water and Sanitation
Open until30 Mar 2017
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U.S. Agency for International Development — Asian Women Entrepreneurs in Clean Energy
Open until30 Mar 2017
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U.S. Agency for International Development — Coastal Biodiversity in Central America
Open until09 Apr 2017
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University of Bergen — PhD Course on Poverty, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Open until28 Feb 2017
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Rabobank Employees Fund — Community Projects in Education and Water Supply
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Food sustainability media award
Open until30 May 2017
Young earth solutions (BCFN-YES) research grant competition
Open until27 Jun 2017
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Van Tienhoven Foundation — Small Grants for Biodiversity Conservation
Open until14 Aug 2017
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Tinker Foundation — Martha T. Muse Prize for Antarctica 2017
Open until16 May 2017
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JRS Biodiversity Foundation — Freshwater Biodiversity and Pollinator Biodiversity in Africa 2017
Open until21 Feb 2017
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Innocent Foundation — Seed Grants for Sustainable Agriculture in the Developing World
Lessons from SmartSOIL - a research project in the European Union
15 Jan 2017
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Energy Foundation — China Sustainable Energy Program
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UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council — UK-China Offshore Renewables Energy
Open until09 Feb 2017
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European Commission — Agricultural Strengthening in South Sudan
Open until15 Feb 2017
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European Commission — Improved Nutrition in Lao PDR
Open until12 Mar 2017
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Pura Vida Conservation — Reforestation Projects in the Americas

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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.