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The young progressive farmers visit TAABU
29 Mar 2019by Denis Okwir
Excelling in the world of agripreneurship
29 Mar 2019by Costantine Edward
- Call for participation
Video contest on soil erosion
Open until31 Mar 2019
YPARD Philippines represents Filipino youth in UN-IFAD
04 Mar 2019by Jim leandro Pil Cano
Achieving greater impact together
05 Feb 2019
Call for application: Youth Shaping Sustainable Food Systems Workshop in Eastern Africa
03 Feb 2019by Zaake Paul
- Funding
International innovation award for sustainable food and agriculture
Open until28 Feb 2019
International Forum on Food and Nutrition (9th edition)
13 Dec 2018by Virginia Maria Cravero
Save the date: Youth as drivers of innovation interactive event
12 Nov 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems: Rapid capacity assessment tool
12 Nov 2018
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Inclusive value-chain development: place for women and youth
29 Sep 2018by Kristina Kuznetsova
- Funding
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — World Food Day Poster Contest (Age 5-19)
Open until09 Nov 2018
Ensuring that investments by and for youth in agriculture will come of age
30 Jun 2018by Christiaan Duijst
Fortalecer un entorno favorable para inversiones responsables en la agricultura de Guatemala
18 Jun 2018by Christiaan Duijst
Strengthening the enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture in Guatemala
18 Jun 2018by Christiaan Duijst
- Call for participation
World Food Day 2018 poster contest
Open until09 Nov 2018
Empowering youth to engage in the agricultural sector is key to stimulate economic growth in SADC
17 Apr 2018
Call for participation: Adaptation practices in agriculture
22 Feb 2018 to 31 Mar 2018in Online
Policy Seminar: To Feed the World, Youth in Agriculture Required
13 Mar 2018
- Jobs
FAO Global Internship, Volunteers and Fellows Programmes
Open until31 Dec 2018
Webinar on Rural youth employment: Emerging challenges and targeted solutions
28 Feb 2018
- Jobs
Statistics Specialist: Technical Assistance Statistician at FAO
Open until13 Jan 2018
Call for participation to the e-Forum sustaining the impact of capacity development initiatives for African youth in agriculture
02 Oct 2017by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
FAO leads policy in the livestock sector with new guidance notes
24 May 2017
Rural women and decent work in Egypt
13 May 2017by Assem Reda Abu hatab
Are we ever going to feed the world and nourish the planet effectively?
30 Apr 2017by Virginia Maria Cravero
- Funding
Nutrition course
Crop improvement course
- Funding
Improving nutrition through agriculture and food systems course
- Funding
Food and nutrition security analysis course

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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.