The YFarm Youth Agric Festival was organised to promote youth agric enterprises, build capacities of young people in the agric sector and engage with relevant stakeholders. The organizers goal was to promote a youth-led agribusiness society, reduce poverty and increase active youth participation in agriculture. to this end members of YPard Nigeria actively participated in the proceedings.   The organizers were... More

The average farming age in Nigeria is between 61 and 65years and the average age is 24 years . Our visit to St Mulumba Catholic College in Ile-ife an ancienty city where most household have in recent times practiced farming of some sort, was set out to educate the teenagers on the dangers of not choosing careers in agriculture and the... More

  If women had the same access to productivity as men they could increase yields in their fields by 20-30%. This alone would raise total agricultural output in developing countries (Nigeria included) by 2.5-4%, which would reduce the no of hungry people in the world by 12-17% or 100-150 million people. (FAO 2011) The statistics around food security, youth unemployment, post-harvest losses and rural development has... More

YPARD Netherlands is pleased to invite all members for a discussion event/meet&greet on November 9, 2017, from 16:00 pm to 18:00 pm, at the hosting institute KIT in Amsterdam!YPARD being a networking platform, has also invited other partner organisations to this event to join the discussions and to give its members a chance to meet and interact with other youth/agriculture based... More

Building on the positive outcomes from the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) and the International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences (IAAS) Tropentag 2016 session YPARD Europe and IAAS Bonn decided to make it a tradition by organizing a second interactive session at Tropentag 2017 in Bonn, Germany. The session focusing on the topic “Supporting youth in agriculture:... More

On behalf of the YPARD Malawi Chapter, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to YPARD and the MasterCard Foundation for their financial and technical contributions towards our role modelling and vision setting event conducted at Mlomba Community day secondary school. Without their support the team wouldn’t have managed the event. Secondly, we also extend the warmest thanks to Bunda Female... More

Dear Young People, The first YPARD Jamaica Country Chapter came onboard last year with a mission to serve as a local platform that seeks to encourage and support young professionals across disciplines, parishes and backgrounds to realize their full potential and contribute towards innovative agricultural development. Our main activities have included the development of our Country Charter which pinpoints Food Safety, Security... More

Update 29 November 2017: Applications have now closed  Are you an agricultural student or young professional in the Philippines looking for growth and learning opportunities? Or are you expert in agriculture based in the Philippines who is looking for fresh partnerships and ideas? We have the perfect program for you! YPARD Philippines is holding its first Mentoring Program, which is aimed at helping... More

By analogy or logic, the “BT protein” is an insecticide since it kills the certain class of insects. However, there is a fundamental difference between the natural protein acting as an insecticide vs laboratory made chemical-insecticides. When you eat BT protein, enzymes in the stomach just degrade the BT protein as efficiently as it does with other proteins. The digestive acids... More

Honey bees are fascinating creatures because of their incredible work ethic, sweet sugary substance and integrated social structure.It is actually smart geometry of nature. Hexagon is the only shape which shares common boundaries with other hexagon and doesn't waste any space. Think if it was all circular small cells, there will be small gap left betwe...en them. Similarly, triangle or square... More

Few days before the World Food day (16th of October), the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN Foundation) organized a press lunch to present the 8th International Forum on Food and Nutrition. The BCFN Foundation is a multidisciplinary research centre analyzing the causes and effects that economic, scientific, social and environmental relationships have on nutrition. It produces scientific content... More

‘Being the second man’ was my response to the question: ‘which role will you play in a team? This amongst others was one question my professor asked in order to understand my personality. Certainly, it was not the answer she was expecting and I had a feeling this was not the type of response she was used to. She continued by... More

Missed out on the webinar? Access the recording by clicking here, ( the password 5rWVkRDB ) as well as the presentation.   Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017   Time: 3.30 - 4.30 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) Click here to register for the Webinar Purpose of Webinar Increasingly development reports and media cite the global ‘youth bulge’: the 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 to 24... More

It became apparent to me at a very young age that farming and agriculture by extension was disdained. It so happened that in one of my kindergarten classes, the teacher asked us to name our parents’ occupations. As was the norm with such questions, all students were enthusiastic to answer. The exception this time was Timothy*(not his real name) who seemed... More

Blogpost co-authored by Alexa Glo, John Awiel, Forget Shareka, Annet Mukamurenzi and Phenny Omondi.  According to the 2017 World Food Prize laureate, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, "The future of African youth lies in agriculture.” This can be materialized by making agriculture both profitable and "cool" for young people. Therefore there is a great need to support youth with viable initiatives to transform the... More

Most often, youth have claim that access to land is the biggest hindrance to their involvement in agriculture and agribusiness. When asked why they still find it hard to engage in agriculture, the common answer given by the youth is, “I don’t have land to start agriculture.” Land is the most valued and top factor of production and without it, indeed... More

Exploring unique money making ideas can turn out to be a great thing to indulge in. sellingworms otherwise known as vemiculture is one such idea that can make you money ifapproached with the right mind set. The best thing about rearing worms is that it does notneed much capital to start, with as low as Kshs. 5000 you can look at... More

After the epic moments spent in Cameroon at Limbe, the “Town of Friendship” last year, the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) decided to hold this year’s International Conference of the Australia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN), GFRASAPEN at Ingham, the “Town of Hospitality”, and at Townsville in Queensland, Australia. This is quite a good approach to vary the hosting country each... More

Across the different segments in the agricultural sector, an agreement was reached on the increasing need to have future leaders or professionals cut across the various aspect of the value chain. More importantly, the need to have professionals that will take charge of the growing population, the food needs and ultimately be equipped with knowledge, skills - especially in leadership, entrepreneurship... More

  How To Deal With Heat Stroke In Poultry A chicken or a flock of chickens with heat stress and exhaustion can be deadly if it's not controlled or elimintaed in time. We're in the heat of summer now. Urban and backyard chicken owners need to be watching their flocks for signs of heat stress and must learn how to control... More