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YPARD: a youth movement experience for sustainable food systems?
12 May 2020by Marina Cherbonnier
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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo — Scott Neotropical Fund for Wildlife Conservation 2017
Open until07 Apr 2017
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Christensen Fund — Grants for Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity
Open until29 Sep 2017
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — Momentum for Change 2017
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Eable Foundation — Grassroots Water Supply and Environment in East Africa
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International Livestock Research Institute — Training in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics
Open until16 Mar 2017
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American Association for the Advancement of Science — Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists 2017
Open until14 Jul 2017
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Disney Conservation Fund — Annual Conservation Grants 2018
Open until16 Nov 2017
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Indo-US Science and Technology Forum — SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Fellowships for Indian Researchers
Open until27 Feb 2017
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New England Biolabs Foundation — Grants for Grassroots Conservation 2017
Open until14 Aug 2017
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European Energy Community — Summer School 2017
Open until30 May 2017
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European Outdoor Conservation Association — Funding for Conservation Projects 2017
Open until30 Jul 2017
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Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture — Field Attachment Program Award
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Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund — Conserving Biodiversity in Indonesia
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French Institute for Development Research — Research on Plant Biodiversity, Call 3
Open until06 Mar 2017
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Ocean Park Conservation Foundation — Wildlife Conservation in Asia 2017-2018
Open until30 Jan 2017
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Colorado State University — Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas 2017
Open until14 May 2017
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UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs — Darwin Scoping Projects, Round 23
Open until18 Dec 2017
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European Commission — Reducing Climate Vulnerability in São Tomé and Principe
Open until15 Feb 2017
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Rainforest Alliance — Kleinhans Fellowship for Research in Community Forestry
Open until27 Feb 2017
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United Nations Women’s Guild Vienna — Children’s Charity 2017
Open until30 Dec 2016
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — African Elephant Conservation Fund 2017
Open until16 Jan 2017
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First Solar Corporate Charitable Fund — Donations of Solar Equipment
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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund — Biodiversity Conservation in Timor-Leste
Open until12 Dec 2016
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European Commission — Sustainable Energy in the Philippines
Open until30 Jan 2017
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Royal Bank of Canada — Blue Water Project 2017
Open until22 Dec 2016
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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund — Grants for Biodiversity Conservation in the East Melanesian Islands
Open until27 Nov 2016
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Organic Farming Research Foundation — Research Grants Program
Open until09 Dec 2017
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Audubon Naturalist Society — Small Grants for Conservation
Open until14 Dec 2016
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UNCCD: Land for Life Youth Social Media Activist Challenge
Open until30 Oct 2016

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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.