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Passing on to a new YPARD leadership and management
20 Jun 2021by Marina Cherbonnier
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Jim Leandro Cano
20 Jun 2021by Pius Hiwe
Ensuring food security amid COVID-19
14 Jun 2021by Pooja Bhandari
YPARD Nepal announces the World Food Safety photo contest 2021
07 Jun 2021by Suvha Shree Sharma
Welcoming the new YPARD LAC communications focal point: Hazell Flores
07 Jun 2021by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming the new YPARD Steering Committee Chair: Sebastian Pedraza Paez
29 May 2021by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Marina Demaria Venâncio
19 May 2021by Pius Hiwe
From the director's desk
10 May 2021by Genna Tesdall
Welcoming the incoming YPARD Director: Genna Tesdall
10 May 2021by Pius Hiwe
4th School for Young Ruralists - Peru Bicentennial Edition
03 May 2021by Diana Marcelita Ponce de león camahualí
The future of agriculture and your future as a professional in agriculture
20 Apr 2021by Juliana Omolola Gold
E-meet YPARD Network Engagement Coordinator
12 Apr 2021by Glindys virginia Luciano
Welcoming YPARD Network Engagement Coordinator: Glindys Virginia Luciano
23 Mar 2021by Pius Hiwe
Lessons learned from webinar on publishing scientific articles
09 Feb 2021by Sagar Koirala
Youth4Nature joins Youth In Landscapes Initiative
29 Jan 2021by Pius Hiwe
Call for applications: YPARD Director
27 Jan 2021by Pius Hiwe
2020 has yielded to 2021: This, I celebrate
13 Jan 2021by Yemi Adeyeye
IVSA Paklihawa – YPARD Nepal: One Health Webinar Series
10 Jan 2021by Ashwini kumar Jha
YPARD Café Peru –Resilience and innovation stories by young entrepreneurs through pandemics
22 Dec 2020by Pedro Reyna
The role of networks in promoting food system transformations
11 Dec 2020by Paulo henrique Pulcherio filho
YPARD Nepal Café: Quality Management and Environment Management System
02 Dec 2020by Abhishek Khadka
YPARD Café Peru – YOUTH & INCLUSIVE BUSINESS: Fostering opportunities at the new normal
23 Nov 2020by Pedro Reyna
Welcoming the new YPARD Brazil communications focal point: Danilo Crispim Massuela
18 Nov 2020by Pius Hiwe
Twin Safety RD: "Thing that changed our lives"
06 Nov 2020by Ana Francisca Tavarez
100 solutions for 1 problem: feeding the hungry planet
16 Oct 2020by Nikita Bhusal
Cooltivando: A youth-led initiative that empowers rural families
16 Oct 2020by Lucas Felippe
Welcoming YPARD Costa Rica Country Representative: Manuela Gil Echeverria
16 Oct 2020by Pius Hiwe
Launching Global YPARD Café: call for project proposals
13 Oct 2020by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming YPARD Mexico Country Representative: Horacio Rodríguez Vázquez
05 Oct 2020by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming YPARD Grenada country representative: Bevon Chadel Charles
01 Oct 2020by Stacy Hammond

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Youth success stories

From the Czech Republic to Asia, Africa and beyond my agricultural story so far!

Introducing Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies, leader of the Biogas Research Team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), an agriculture enthusiast with a passion for his work and the second-youngest member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy platform of the Czech Republic.

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.