Climate change

Climate change and food systems: the role of women
18 Apr 2019by Sally Musungu
A knowledge sharing workshop on climate change
19 Nov 2018by Saara Ranabhat
Building resilience among rural farmers in Nigeria
05 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Restoring hope through the landscape and making restoration possible
05 Oct 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
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Climate Tracker — Writing Competition on Climate Change
Open until12 Oct 2018
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European Commission — Ending Drought Emergencies
Open until25 Oct 2018
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CGIAR - research student assistant
Open until05 Aug 2018
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British Council — International Research Workshops: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change in Russia
Open until31 Jul 2018
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Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation — Swiss-African Research Cooperation
Open until10 Jun 2018
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Woodard & Curran Foundation — Water and Climate Change
Open until30 Jun 2018
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University of Michigan — Conference on Sustainability and Development
Open until15 Jul 2018
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UNFCCC — Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change
Open until31 Aug 2018
Putting Innovation (S) at the Centre of Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Zimbabwe
01 May 2018
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Agricultural inputs to increase production in Ghana
17 Apr 2018by Sylvester Kwame Osei
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Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility — Small Grants Programme
Open until31 Dec 2018
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Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors — Cities for our Future Challenge 2018
Open until31 May 2018
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African Women’s Development Fund — Empowering African Women
Open until07 Mar 2018
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West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use — WORKSHOP: Estimating changes in water availability in West Africa (extended deadline)
Open until05 Jan 2018
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European Commission — Master of Science in Food Security and Climate Change 2018-2020
Open until31 Jan 2018
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U.S. National Science Foundation — International Research Experiences for U.S. University Students 2018
Open until30 Jan 2018
YPARD Sweden: Tweeting for change
13 Nov 2017by Sunil Abeyasekera
- Call for participation
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence — Climate CoLab: Synergistic Solutions for Sustainable Development
Open until07 Jan 2018
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University of Antwerp — Masters Program in Development Studies 2018-2019
Open until01 Feb 2018
Kenyan bags Ksh1.2m in Global Climate Launchpad Award
03 Nov 2017
- Call for participation
Hague Academy for Local Governance — Talent Programme 2018
Open until01 Dec 2017
Climate change, food security and low employment: Engaging youth in agriculture through YPARD
04 Oct 2017by Sunil Abeyasekera
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AXA Research Fund — Research on Risk Management, Academic Chairs 2018
Open until13 Jun 2018
International symposium on sunflower and climate change
05 Feb 2018 to 06 Feb 2018
Is agribusiness the magic bullet for youth unemployment in Africa?
14 Sep 2017
The flight to the light
01 Sep 2017by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova

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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.