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Youth in Agriculture for Business, not for Food

Nowadays, with the rising of youth unemployment in Africa, young Ghanaians can find opportunities in the agricultural sector as entrepreneurs. However, they lack the means and the space to do so. The perception of agriculture as a mere farming for food needs to be changed in order to see agriculture as a viable business within the value chain.  This was the... More
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Youth, goats and food production in Nepal

Goats are the only medium-sized livestock species that provides: i) a means to accumulate assets through increases in numbers, ii) a regular source of income through sale of animals and manure, and iii) a regular source of household nutrition through consumption of milk. Livestock provides about 20% of the total household income in the hills from the sale of products such... More
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ICT Experts Heading in Dhaka to Enhance Agricultural Development in Bangladesh: Connecting Farmers and ICT

"This is true, when a hawker shouts in streets and lanes to collect and buy trashed papers from house as well as watching a video song in cell phone, to imagine undoubtedly the fascination of mobile use in Bangladesh" said by Dr. Craig Meisner, Country Director, World Fish Center at the very early morning of 3rd December at E-AG Conference 2014. This... More
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#ICT4AG Handprint Challenge

Participate, Learn and Continuate Date: 5-7 November 2014 Time: 8 am to 5 pm Venue: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Paklihawa Campus, Nepal Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have become a crucial need at the present time in each and every sector including agriculture where its usefulness is immense. ICT can empower learners, promote change and foster the development of... More
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Be entrepreneur; Create Opportunities!

What is it to be an entrepreneur? Being entrepreneur is about exercising “Freedom, Vision and Passion” – our panel of seven young entrepreneurs assert, during the YPARD and Agrinatura Career Fair, held on 16, September 2014, on the sideline of the Tropentag at CULS (Czech University of Life Sciences), Prague. Young people have many innovative ideas. At a time where precarity... More
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Food Shortage in Senegal - How can the Government deal with it?

In September 2014, the Senegalese Ministry of Interior announced that 600,000 Senegalese living in the country’s rural areas would need assistance after a shortage of rain this past summer. The month of May is a crucial time for sowing crops because the earnings from the harvest assist farmers in paying the education for their children, amongst other things. However, inadequate rainfalls... More
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National Seminar on Rural Youth in Family Farming in India: Promoting Sustainable use of Natural Resources and Safeguarding Agro-biodiversity

Agriculture may be considered as the largest private enterprise in India which is largely dominated by small and marginal farmers. The Census of India: Economic Activity brings out that the Indian workforce is over 400 million strong, which constitutes 39.1 % of the total population of the country. The dependence on agriculture is brought out by the fact that out of... More
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YPARD Nepal announces Family Farming Photo Contest

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) with the slogan “Feeding the World, Caring the Earth.” To mark the IYFF and on occasion of the World International Youth Day, YPARD Nepal, in collaboration with AgriYouthNepal (AYN) and Nepal Agricultural Cooperative Central Federation Ltd. (NACCFL), announces “YPARD Nepal Family Farming Photo Contest.” A competition from all Nepalese... More
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Welcoming YPARD LAC coordinator: Gipsy Bocanegra

We are delighted to welcome our new YPARD LAC coordinator: Gipsy Bocanegra. Gipsy is Economist. Besides being specialized in public policy and international business, she was awarded by the Colombian Institute for Education Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (ICETEX, for its Spanish acronym) in 2013 for receiving a top score in the State learning ‘SABER-PRO’ test, which is a graduation requirement.... More
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Invitation to collaborate in the "Prospective Study on Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE) in Africa

Dear Ypardians, TEAM-Africa is conducting a development study titled “Prospective Study on Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE) in Africa“. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze, with a medium-long term perspective as well as a continental based focus, the changes that are expected in the agri-food sector and their likely impacts on the development of TAE in Africa. Obtained under... More
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Engaging Young Professionals in Seed Technology

For sustainable agricultural growth and food security, production of quality seeds is a basic requisite, considering that the current supply is very low regarding the total requirement in Pakistan. This is why YPARD-Pakistan Local Representative, Dr. Shehzad Basra, organized one day workshop on “Capacity building in seed technology” in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad the 7th of June, 2014. Due to... More
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Youth and its key role to face environmental challenges

Some recent surveys show that during the year 2013 the total population growth in Pakistan was 1.91% while during the last 10 years average was 1.82%. As we are a growing population country with low economic growth, we have to be certain that we may ensure better quality of life which is only possible when living in a green and fresh... More
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All in One Rhythm: How to use Youth and Agriculture to foster Development in Brazil

The day has finally come. After eight years of intensive planning, building and waiting, we will see the ball rolling at 5 pm today, Brasilia time, for the first match in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Surely, this journey means more than football. This period was also marked by a rising concern of Brazilian people for better days, for better living... More
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YPARD Nepal Mushroom Farming Project Story

Mushroom farming is one of the immense potential crops which could trigger youth generation towards its production. High valued crop in terms of both food and medicine with low cost production technology cannot only attract the youth but also smallholder farmers to get high return within short time interval. Agroclimatic variation in Nepal is a boon for the mushroom farming, as... More
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YPARD Pakistan promotes Youth Key Role for Environmental Sustainability during the World Environment Day

Conserving a clean and healthy environment for all Pakistanis has been the main’s day issue. In our daily lives, we are starting to face some problems that our past generations did not have. Nowadays, no one is free from getting ill by consuming water which is impure or getting no water at all due to lack of rain. Besides this, the population’s rate... More
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Protecting the curiosity and experimentation enterprise

“Humans like to confront the unknown” (Bruce Alberts) Not long ago, philosophy embodied the length, breadth and width of inquiry and investigation culminating to knowledge. Advancements in human progress gave birth to the fragmentation of the body of knowledge into disciplines – natural and social sciences. Deference to budget cuts, time lines and polarity in commitments  as now in the U.S.... More
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Who will take the place of the aging African farmer?

There are more young people in the African population than ever before. In fact, approximately 70 percent of the over 1 Billion people living in Africa are under the age of 30! What’s more, fewer and fewer young people are attracted to agriculture, or see it as a viable future for themselves. Emmanuel Ngenge Ngeh, Cameroonian founder of the Young Farmers... More
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YPARD Nigeria visits IITA Agripreneurs

In line with two of its core objectives, that is to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among young professionals across disciplines, professions, age and regions; and to promote agriculture among young people,  the Young Professionals Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) Nigeria, recently paid a visit to the IITA Young Agripreneurs at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)... More
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Averting a "time bomb" - The IITA Example

“They are an opportunity if we convert their energies (the youth) to agricultural development but they could be a ‘time bomb’ if we fail to do so,”- President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Dr Kanayo Nwanze. The above words were expressed by the IFAD President Dr. Kanayo during his speech in August 2012 when he visited the International... More
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YOUTH IN ACTION – MY IITA Experience

What comes to your mind when you think of a farmer? What comes to mind for most of us is an old man, dressed in overalls, smelling dirty, and chewing on a straw. Though farmers are considered important to food production and the economy of any nation, youth have little interest in agricultural careers. Nowadays most people equate agriculture with farming... More
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