When YPARD, was established in 2006, young generations’ were increasingly lacking interest in agriculture; there was insufficient participation of young professionals in dialogues addressing critical development issues; and inadequate access to resources to meet these problems. The youth in agriculture landscape has immensely grown in these last couple of years and YPARD is happy to be associated with this progress.Within the... More

About the programme  A programme was conducted on apiculture-purpose, process and planning inorder to inspire emerging youths in agriculture sectors . The programme was intended to motivate the land less rural village side people who were minimallly involved in agriculture through youths Programme By It was conducted by the group of agriculture studying students currently enrolling in Agriculture and Forestry University... More

Almost every smallholder farmer receiving agricultural payments in Ghana is paid in cash. While, cash may seemingly provide instant gratification for crop sales, cash-based transactions ultimately prove to be costly and dangerous. Cash can easily be misplaced or stolen, leaving the carrier with no recourse. When cash changes hands there is little record of the transaction, this could make accountability difficult.... More

I am Gebhard Eshumba, Senior Youth Officer for Rural Youth Development Programme, Directorate of Youth Development in the Ministry of Sports Youth and National Service in Namibia. I had great opportunity to participate in the workshop on Strengthening Capacities of Youth to Carry Out and Benefit from Responsible Agricultural Investment in SADC Countries from 20th – 23rd March, 2018. The three-day... More

  YPARD means a lot to me! It is one of the platforms through which I get opportunities to improve our farming systems with fellow youth. In 2014, I decided to join the YPARD family and In mid-2017, I was entrusted to be a country representative after a national election process. After every four years, YPARD develops a new strategy. And... More

YPARD Ghana partnered the International Association of Agricultural Students (IAAS-Legon) in conjunction with consumer science students association to celebrate their 39th Green Week celebration under the theme: Redefining the role of Agricultural and Consumer Sciences through entrepreneurship and innovation from the 23rd February to 3rd March, 2018. During the career and job fair session, the Country Representative and members of YPARD... More

Gideon Padi Konotey, a Graphic Designer and the CEO of the Goat Masters Ltd tells us about his agribusiness venture in an interview conducted by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye , the YPARD Africa Program Officer. Enjoy reading the interview. Kofi: One name making the headlines in the circles of Ghana’s agribusiness in recent times is Goat Masters. As the CEO, could you tell us what your business enterprise... More

“Young people are best placed to understand and clearly voice out issues that their fellow youth are facing”. This was the premise that the Restless Development and the MasterCard Foundation stood on to introduce the youth to youth-led research methodology. Under the methodology, young people were empowered to take the lead in all stages of the research process from question design... More

This blog post is co-authored by Rashid B. Malya and Janet Maro. We are so grateful to be directly involved in the Sustainable Agriculture’s training program for youth in Tanzania. Great thanks to the Sunrise Children's Home of Uhekule Village and Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) in Morogoro for rolling out the Attract Youth to Agriculture program. We also thank the MasterCard... More

Francesca Allievi - The President of the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) Alumni Association and researcher at the BCFN Foundation, shares with us details on her inspiring PhD research topic on meat consumption and its effect on our environmental resources through an interview conducted by Stacy Hammond - the YPARD Europe Communications and Fundraising officer. Enjoy the interview below:... More

Petr Hindrich, Founder, and Directing Manager of green-books.org shares with us his thoughts, ideas and perspective on raising awareness about nature and sustainable practices in communities using children’s education and books as a starting point through an interview conducted by Stacy Hammond - the YPARD Europe Communications and Fundraising officer. Together with a couple of like-minded friends, he established this non-profit... More

I am Zara Danielyan, a senior student at Agribusiness Teaching Center of the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) foundation and I had the privilege to participate in this hands-on intensive course.   Thanks to USAID who funded the InnovATE Armenia project, this is the second year that the ICARE foundation jointly with Penn State University implemented the innovative... More

I am Elvina Asatryan, a senior student at Agribusiness Teaching Center (ATC) in Yerevan. ATC is a collaborative program between Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU) and Texas A&M University. All the courses at ATC are taught in English and we are given first-hand agribusiness experience through internship programs.   Not only did ATC imbue me with up-to-date knowledge of agribusiness, public... More

It’s no news that one of the most unexploited potentials in Sub Sahara Africa is Agriculture.  Nigeria, for example, is blessed with 84 million hectares of arable land (bigger than the land mass of most African countries), 60% (50.4) million of which is currently uncultivated:  the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria via the Minister for Information; Lai Muhammad rightly... More

GFAR and FARA are leading the facilitation of a Collective Action embedding foresight into agricultural research and innovation in Africa. Climate change, population growth and migration are some of the challenges that face the future of agriculture. Caught in the middle of these challenges are smallholder farmers and rural communities who produce a substantial proportion of the world’s food. For them... More

Access to farming information remains one of the major challenges facing smallholder farmers in Kenya and Africa at large. Mitahato Education and Development Fund, a community based organization in rural Kenya has launched a one stop shop farmer information platform to provide farmers with farming information freely on: Inputs, market prices, weather updates, simplified manuals, farming videos, agricultures service providers, link... More

Agriculture is obviously Africa’s golden heritage but the continent is struggling to feed itself and far beyond the dream of feeding the World.  The primary concerns associated with Africa’s agriculture includes the depleting age of smallholder farmers, policy issues, absence and low technological use, improper use of machines, and ultimately, lack of youths in agriculture, coupled with low skills set for... More

I was flying from Amsterdam Schipol to Rome Fiumicino while reading "The Holland Herald," a magazine provided by the airplane company I was flying with. One of the articles in the magazine drew my attention, about the insight of UNESCO World Heritage. In the article, there was mentioned several conditions where the "UNESCO World Heritage" status could be revoked from a... More

Agricultural Extension in Nigeria is linked with both the political and modern agricultural history in Nigeria. It involves dissemination of information, innovation and technology to the farmers /clientele in the language they understand in other to improve their knowledge, develop their skills change their attitude and aspiration so as to increase Agricultural productivity, farmers standard of living, income generated from Agriculture... More

Being a YPARD Armenia member, I had a chance to represent my country at the Youth Uniting to Halt Deforestation workshop and conference organized by joint efforts of the International Forestry Student Association (IFSA), the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) at FAO headquarters in Rome from February 19th to 22nd, 2018.  Now I am ready... More