There is a growing recognition that we have reached a tipping point when it comes to ideas on how best to engage young people or youths to be conscious and responsible global citizens in various disciplines. Today, sustainable development and the green economy are the new focus of research, education, and development in most countries albeit they are new terms for... More

[Photo credit: Naresh Kusi] Capacity Building training on Climate Change, Carbon Financing and REDD/REDD+ was organized in National Legume Research Center (NLRC), Rampur, Chitwan by Youth Alliance in Environment (YAE) with support of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) from December 1 to December 4, 2013.  With the slogan, nurturing Green Minds, YAE (established in... More

YPARD Nepal is a branch of YPARD working voluntarily for the upliftment and enhancement of agriculture in Nepal. With successful university level awareness programs, YPARD Nepal wants to extend its arm and raise new voices for the common fight of agricultural prosperity. YPARD Nepal now opens membership for 20 volunteering members to organize different programs as discussed on year roung planning of... More

The rejuvenation conference organized by IITA as part of its resource mobilization strategy in 2012 has come and gone but the call for investments in young people by the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Dr Kanayo Nwanze that culminated into the formation of the IITA Youth program will not fade away. Delivering a speech titled, “Rejuvenation: Investing... More

YPARD is thrilled to welcome our very first YPARD representative for Croatia: Zrinka Filipovi? Dermit. Zrinka is soon to finish her year as a graduate student at the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb. In this context, she often encountered various problems concerning youth involvement in agriculture. Besides student organizations which are a good starting point for international cooperation, she hadn’t come... More

Two YPARD members were waived the registration fee for participating to the Social Media Coordination Bootcamp of the Global Landscapes Forum, Warsaw, Poland, organized by the CGIAR. This enabled two social-media experienced young professionals to benefit from a capacity building’s opportunity in refined Social Media Coordination for youth-in-ag’ s empowerment. I was one of them as YPARD Web and Communications officer... More

Last August and September, YPARD was one of the juries for the 2013 ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition, in the section Food and water wastage. The contest aims at recognizing young people who are using technological innovation to improve the social reality of their communities and giving them a boost in their activity. The contest had several phases. First, it... More

Young people are truly the best example for other young people to follow. Many people would refute this statement, but it holds true once the young leaders of today remain dedicated to their work, share their experiences and guide the way for others. At the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) ongoing at the University of Warsaw, Poland, November 16-17, 8 Youth speakers... More

“We now have the largest youth generation in human history.  What do we do with this restless generation?  Far too often activities are taking place without the input from young people.”  Thembi (Sithembile Ndema) started, as the hard talk moderator at the Youth session of the Global Landscapes Forum, 16th November, Warsaw, Poland. 10 young speakers were selected among 150 applications... More

In the episode “Agriculture entrepreneurs” a current affairs television show of Sajha Sawal, Devi Prasad Timilsina, a beekeeping farmer from Parbat district, Nepal shared “I am earning $10,000 USD per year but I am not getting workers to support my activities even if I am trying to provide good salary. My elder son has gone in Gulf country to earn $1,000-... More

Nepal belongs to one of the poor country in the world. One fourth of its total population still lives below its poverty line. Poverty is one of the major problem of our country. Agriculture is the main occupation of Nepali people, around two-third of nepal's population depends upon agriculture for their living. Agriculture sector must be enhanced and implementation of new technologies in this... More

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing human being in the 21st century. Climate change will seriously affect life, production and environment worldwide. Temperature rise and sea level rise may cause drought, floods and salinity water intrusion into agricultural land - thus, harm agriculture and pose risks to industries and socio-economic systems in the future. In addition, Vietnam... More

YPARD is delighted to welcome Armen Ghazaryan as YPARD representative for Armenia. "I have always been highly interested in agriculture, especially when it's about looking at agriculture from economic perspectives. Armen says. Even in my very childhood I was enjoying planting and harvesting greens, fruits and vegetables at my grandparent's summer home. I grew up and my love towards agriculture became... More

My name is Johnbosco, I studied Agriculture and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Soil Science and Land Management from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. I am also a member of IITA Youth Agripreneur. Often times, we are being asked these questions of; ‘who we are, why we are into this, what we are into, how we are doing this,... More

In response to the call for participation in the YPARD India working group given on ypard.net, a good number of applications were received and out of them, 15 candidates were selected based on their expression of interest, insight on youth and agriculture and commitment for YPARD. The members of YPARD India working group are: Aditya, Amjad, Jitender,  Jyotsna, Muthuveeran, Natalia, Pardeep,... More

“We, we, we” – It will certainly ring a bell for whoever has some experience of global development conferences. People get together with the beautiful purpose of changing the world, “for the best.” A “we”, like an unidentified monster. Everybody returns home with quite an unclear idea of who will do what to contribute to the broad picture. On the top... More

YPARD is delighted to welcome Madan Poudel as YPARD Web4Knowledge. Madan is working some 15 hours a week remotely, on posting information on www.ypard.net. Here are some Madan’s words to YPARD Community: "Hello Ypardians, I am Madan Poudel from Nepal currently studying in Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU), Agriculture faculty in Bachelor level. As my family engaged in farming for major... More

YPARD is delighted to welcome Kristina Kuznetsova as YPARD Country representative for Ukraine. "I am a little botanist from a big city, Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, Kristina says. Plants have fascinated me from an early age; I loved exploring their diversity even before I knew what the word diversity meant. Some of my favorite activities as a child included picking and... More

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)'s two-day event will be kick-started with a TedX-style Youth session. Nine young people will take the floor to deliver inspirational speeches about youth’s role in the natural resources sector. “Thought leaders” in youth issues will share with us how they have changed the way youth are perceived in natural resource management sectors and “Youth champions” will... More

YPARD is delighted to welcome its new representative for Kenya : Emmanuel Ngore. Emmanuel Ngore is a programme assistant at the World Agroforestry Centre. Emmanuel has worked with the youth for 6 years on subject matters pertaining to conservation of natural resources, policymaking, and diseases prevention. This has spanned the Non-Governmental sector (Kenya Red Cross – Society Nyando Branch) where he... More