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Agritools project

Exploring ICT4Ag projects and startups in Africa through Agritools

Agritools is the first multimedia research project that showcases how African tech innovations and technology-based startups are revolutionizing the agribusiness sector and promoting the development of cultural values and rural policies.

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.

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Youth in Landscapes Camp
27 Oct 2019 to 31 Oct 2019in Accra International Conference Centre
ICSD 2019 : 7th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 4 - 5 September 2019 Rome, Italy
04 Sep 2019 to 05 Sep 2019in Roma Evenit, Gregorian University
The African Farming’s 2nd Edition Agribusiness Summit
27 Aug 2019 to 28 Aug 2019in Abuja

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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
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Youth Involvement in Agriculture

Nutrition for Plants, Nutrition for People, with Esin Mete

Future Farmers Special: Joel Salatin

Forests Asia Summit 2014 - Special Youth Session, Youth in Southeast Asia

Youth recommendations at the Forests Asia Summit's closing plenary

Turning nomadic life into successful ranching activities in Uganda

What the Future Holds in Madagascar

The Business of Food - Kenya: Shantytown Garden

Hassan and the Graduates

Mali: Reversing the Exodus

Joseph Macharia – Luring youth back to farms: The power of social media

Otim Joseph - Uganda's untold success story

Nadia Manning-Thomas - Linking development, youth and retail in an unconventional way

Stephen Kibet -- Kenya's youth use mapping technology to combat soil erosion

A YOUng FARMer's vision, Switzerland, Christoph Kappeler

A YOUng FARMer's vision, Serbia, Nebjosa Dinovic, SUPERIOR Seeds

A YOUng FARMer's Vision, Slovakia, Peter Francisci

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Youth in Landscapes Camp

ICSD 2019 : 7th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 4 - 5 September 2019 Rome, Italy

The African Farming’s 2nd Edition Agribusiness Summit

Call for Reporting Grant Applications: Climate Change Impacts and Youth-Initiated Solutions in Nile Basin Countries

Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA); Inaugural call for applications

Leakey Foundation — Research on Primates

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