"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

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD country representative for Egypt: Assem Abu Hatab. Assem is an economist. After finishing his PhD, Assem worked as an assistant researcher in the College of Economics & Management of Northwest A&F University in China. Afterwards, he worded a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University (USA). Moreover, Assem was a... More

Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) has been working in Ghana’s agricultural sector since 2004. Engineering is a bit of a misnomer, as we don’t build bridges or roads. Instead, we use the engineering framing of problem solving and systems thinking to address some of the root causes of poverty in Africa. Youth: Global Change Makers Agriculture is the cornerstone of development... More

Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The event, sponsored by GFAR, CIARD and FAO, was co-hosted by YPARD Asia. It was the first time... More

We are delighted to welcome our new YPARD Country representative for Brazil: Gustavo Togeiro de Alckmin. Gustavo studied Agriculture at the College of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” of the University of São Paulo and holds a Msc. on Agricultural Systems for Local Development from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the University of Montpellier SupAgro. Coming from a long family line... More

Several young professionals, students, and technical experts from many sectors and University Labs across the U.S. and overseas came together during the first week of November to collectively share new insights into solving some of the greatest development challenges facing society. TechCon2014 was setup by the United States Agency For International Development (USAID) as part of the Higher Education Solutions Network... More

Technical Online Communicators, IT professionals of different CGIAR centers and its partners organizations along with external experts on different web related matters participated in a five day workshop from the 15th to the 19th of September, 2014 at Bioversity International´s centre in Maccarese, Italy. Technical Online Communicators (TOCs) is a community of practice comprising webmasters, web developers and social media coordinators... More

“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning." T.S. Eliot More than a year has passed since I asked Courtney Paisley, YPARD director, to be the very first YPARD representative in Brazil. At the time, I was still amazed by the fact that one of... More

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Turkey: Eren Taskin. Eren studied Agricultural engineering and Horticulture in Ege University of Izmir, Turkey. After his studies, he took a master on Organic Agriculture in CIHEAM Institute of Bari, Italy where he had the opportunity to learn a lot from experiences of many specialists who work on issues... More

Under the theme "No more left behind: rural communities in times of transitions", the Foundation for South-North Mediterranean Dialogue in association with the Global Forum of Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina organized the Second Preparatory Meeting for the 2015 Global Congress during the period November 8-9, 2014 in Alexandria, Egypt. Soliman Ayash and Yasmeen Sobhy, Egypt-based members of YPARD, were... More

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Tanzania: Juma Bruno Ngomuo. Juma has a degree in Rural Development from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). Over the past few months, Juma has provided social media consultancy services for a range of events aimed at driving policy change in favour of agriculture. Among them was the Regional Youth... More

While youth comprise about 70 percent of the population in Malawi, most of them contend with poverty and HIV/AIDS and lack access to the necessary opportunities to empower and change their lives. Realizing the potential in Malawi's young people, the Kawjo Foundation has charged the youth with the management of the Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) project in the Lilongwe district. IAA is... More

Maize will play an important role in the coming future for meeting rising demand for food, feed, nutrition and environment security. However, this nutritious crop needs further promotion for human consumption to fulfil under-nutrition in Asia-Pacific. Food, feed, nutrition and environment security The 12th Asian Conference and Expert Consultation on Maize for Food, Feed, Nutrition and Environment Security was organized on... More

FARA recently hosted a meeting October 20-22, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya on FARA/CGIAR Collaboration Workshop on Climate Change, Youth Engagement, Food Security and Agricultural Transformation in Africa.  The meeting took 1.5 days to discuss Climate Smart Agriculture and the second 1.5 days to obtain youth input on the development of a FARA youth strategy. It was great to see so many... More

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

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Denmark: Majbrit Terkelsen. Majbrit has a bachelor degree in Agrobiology from the Aarhus University. Her main focus is on livestock and production animals’ role in agriculture. Along her studies, Majbrit became more and more interested in agriculture in a global context and started to attend courses with global perspectives... More

The state of the world; today and tomorrow The Report of the State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2013) revealed that about 870 million people, that is, one-eighth of the world population are suffering from chronic hunger. Statistically, the developing countries largely account for about 98% of the world hunger... More

On October the 7th 2014, YPARD Egypt in collaboration with the Foundation of Sinai Youth for Development and Human Rights organized a workshop at the headquarters of the Foundation in Al-Arish city, North Sinai, Egypt. The meeting had the participation of a total of 26 young people (14 women and 12 men) from North and South Sinai provinces. The attendees consisted... More

We are delighted to welcome YPARD new national representative for Portugal: Carlos Silva. Carlos has a degree in Biology and a master in Environmental contamination and toxicology. After finishing his studies at the University of Porto, Portugal he moved to Lisbon to work in Genetics applied to Agriculture. Then, after two years working in investigation, he started to work in knowledge... More

YPARD China Deputy Representative, Jiaqi Huang went to the Nanjing Agricultural University to attend and give a speech at the Global Confederation of Higher Education Association (GCHERA) World Dialogue: Fostering Agriculture Innovation Systems Network through the Linkage of University, Industry, and Government on September the 20th, 2014. The aim of this event was to provide a forum for universities and other stakeholders to... More