Opportunities

Jobs

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Internship programme at FAO
Open until31 Jul 2020
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Internship and volunteering opportunities (YPARD Asia and Pacific)
Open until17 Jun 2020
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Global Landscapes Forum community specialist
Open until07 Mar 2020
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Internship programme at IFAD
Open until03 Mar 2020
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Project management support - Specialist [youth]
Open until20 Feb 2020

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Funding

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British Ecological Society — Training & Travel Grants
Open until31 Jul 2020
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Wilson Ornithological Society — Research Grants 2020
Open until01 Feb 2020
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Foundation Beyond Belief — Compassionate Impact Grant
Open until07 Feb 2020
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African Academy of Sciences — Intra-Africa Research Collaboration
Open until28 Feb 2020
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Minor Foundation for Major Challenges — Public Awareness on Climate Change
Open until29 Feb 2020

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Call for participation

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Call for participation: Agroecology education programs
Open until22 Sep 2020
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WUR Urban Greenhouse Challenge
Open until30 May 2020
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GLF volunteer program
Open until31 Mar 2020
- Call for participation
Call for nominations: Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in field research
Open until09 Feb 2020
- Call for participation
Food system vision prize
Open until31 Jan 2020
- Call for participation
Digital extension services blog competition
Open until07 Dec 2019

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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.