Every year, millions of tons of food are lost to pest damage during the post-harvest stage, and this also amounts to millions of lost revenue for farmers.In the Philippines alone, 3 MILLION TONS OF RICE is lost every year due to pest damage. But, the situation is about to change for the better! An Engineering Team from The University of... More

Imagine YPARD: a network of young professionals in agriculture as a tree. The more you strengthen its branches, the more leaves and buds will pop-up and grow. As a result: fruits. The roots up to the branches are YPARD Country chapters; they are supporting a growing community of members: a pool of young people with different cultural backgrounds, aspirations and livelihoods.... More

At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, Nidhi Nagabhatla  the Chair, YPARD-Steering Committee and an officer at United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Canada shares with us the ‘2016’ agenda where she envisions the youth, agriculture and food contributing towards sustainable development. We live in a connected world. This is as real as the internet facility in... More

<< Aywajieune >> est la première plateforme sénégalaise de mise en relation, d’annonces et de ventes de produits halieutiques (poissons et fruits de mer). Cette plateforme permet aux vendeurs et acheteurs qui rencontrent des difficultés d’écoulement et d’approvisionnement à effectuer facilement une opération de vente ou d’achat via des outils en ligne. La plateforme est née à la suite d’une étude qui... More

In the year of 2001, the stunting rate in Nepal was 57.1% and ten years later, it was reduced to 40.5% with the average change of 1.66 per year which was the fastest reduction in child stunting in the world. But achieving this target was not easy and Non-Profit Organizations (NGOs) had the greatest contribution. Nepal is a geographically diverse country... More

The year 2016 has been dubbed the “International Year of Pulses” by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) with the main aim of heightening consumer awareness of the nutritional and other benefits of pulse crops. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, “Pulses are a vital source of plant-based proteins and amino acids for people around the globe... More

It is widely acceptable by people that information is crucial and as well as a powerful tool for decision making.  Properly quoted: “What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand” – Rural proverb. In order to meet up with YPARD vision, mission and objective, a representative from YPARD Nigeria team honored the request of... More

This blogpost by Anil Regmi, originally appeared on the GFAR blog. Anil Regmi, a young Nepali national with a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering who recently decided to turn to a career in agriculture, had the distinction in March of being selected as one of six finalists in the Youth Agripreneurs Project (YAP). A pilot project co-organized by GFAR and YPARD, YAP provides seed funding, technical mentoring and business... More

The long awaited day finally arrived and YPARD-Peru founding team welcomed fifty enthusiastic young people (students and professionals) most of them with a background in agricultural, social and political sciences. The first YPARD-Café took place in Lima, on the June 30th, closing the semester in the best way possible!  Seeking to interact with new Ypardians in Peru, we invited three social... More

As YPARD - the international network of young professionals for agricultural development - hits 10 years of achievements in 2016, YPARD members (commonly called “YPARDians”) have been celebrating their community through a series of YPARD online and onsite events, all over the world. More than ever, YPARD reaffirms itself as a network and “a family” of young people dedicated to take... More

Good nutrition is a critical part of health and development (WHO, 2012). But in the case of developing countries like Nepal, nutrition status of people seems to be very poor, which leads to malnutrition. Women and children are the most vulnerable group of malnutrition especially in the rural areas. Nepal Demographic and Health survey (NDHS) 2011 shows that 41% of children... More

This blogpost by Iana Perevoshchikova orginally appeared on the GFAR Blog. Early this year, I opened my e-mail inbox and read the announcement about GCARD3 – Third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development–and immediately I got the feeling that I should just go for it.  I applied to participate as a social reporter and soon I found out I had been selected–I was on my... More

My name is Abdelali Ouhri and I recently graduated in Linguistics from the English Department at My Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco. I am also a young farmer and have been working with my father on our apple farm for years. Now that I have graduated from university, I have more time to help him on the farm - from flowering... More

UPDATE: Please read the mentoring evaluation report at: http://www.ypard.net/resources/equipping-young-people-make-change-agriculture John Dewey once said: "We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience." The YPARD members who have been actively involved in piloting a number of mentoring programs over the past 12 months have now entered a period of reflection - on their achievements, challenges and lessons learned. In the spirit of collective... More

Imagine that you have a chance to secure your future somewhere else that your village or your hometown, you will go after it, won’t you? A fail-safe job and a guaranteed paycheck at the end of each month – even if that means leaving home - are key to a decent livelihood and insurance for long-term peace of mind. Nowadays, leaving... More

by Courtney Paisley and Karin Reinprecht One in five youths, or 125 million, are working but live in extreme poverty (on less than US$1/day). 70 percent of the world's poor (youth) live in rural areas with agriculture as main source of income and employment. Youth make up 40% of the world's unemployed in 2013. A new study – the first of its kind... More

Historically speaking, lot many things happened on this Day -15 July. All now part of history. What is important is future & future looks forward to youth - the future scientists, workers, engineers, doctors, teachers & the farmers. The big majority of farmers worldwide are aging and youth are reluctant to agriculture. They don’t find any glamour in farming. Why they... More

Depuis plus d’une décennie, certains observateurs attentifs à l’évolution de l’agriculture sénégalaise constatent l’émergence d’un fait nouveau. D’une manière singulière, des exploitations à la taille utilisant les nouvelles pratiques agricoles se situent sur l’ensemble du territoire sénégalais, et mettant en œuvre des techniques, des systèmes de production, des circuits de commercialisation qui peuvent surprendre par leur originalité. Cela est le fait... More

With the increasing need for young people to be actively involved in agriculture, young professionals in agriculture gathered in Nairobi to celebrate fifteen young people who have proactively contributed to innovative and economically sustainable agricultural development.  With each passing day, there is some increasing need for young people to be involved in agriculture. More often than not, young people have the... More

There is an African proverb that says the hottest music and dance always comes from home.  It is a proverb that aptly describes the YPARD members who came from all over Africa and on June 15th made Kigali their home. The congregation of more than 70 youth enthusiasts had gathered at the Media Hall during the 7th Africa Science Week to... More