It is a our huge pleasure to welcome Ms. Jelena Grosse-Bley to the YPARD Steering Committee.
Jelena hails from Hanover, Germany, and currently resides in Berlin during her studies as a PhD Candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Jelena bring extensive international cooperation experience to the YPARD Steering Committee; she has been a frequent visitor to mainland China since her teenage years. After she spent a year in Shanghai as a high school student, she added another few years in different places across Germany over the course of her university studies. While she started out in the big cities, food and environmental issues were part of everyday life in many shapes and forms. Jelena's first master thesis gave her the opportunity to learn more from food producers rather than the upper ends of supply chains more visible to most urbanites. The multitude of challenges to sustainable agriculture were striking, including the question of who would be willing and enabled to carry on farming under these conditions as older generations were leaving the field. Further studies in environmental management led Jelena deeper into specific modes of production that were trying to tackle the socio-ecological crux of sustainable and equitable farming, such as regenerative agriculture. This led to Jelena pursuing a PhD in social and cultural anthropology, deeply intrigued by the intimacy between agricultural producers and environmental changes. While interested in inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on food systems overall, she is particularly passionate about staying close to the production side in her own research. As such, she currently focusses on debates around crop seed (breeding) and rural meteorological services in the context of climate change adaptation in China.
In the YPARD Steering Committee, Jelena aims to bring attention to helping YPARD Asia-Pacific grow and deepen cooperation with other regions in YPARD. She is also enthusiastic about administrative aspects of running an international organization, and her attention to detail will be well placed to help YPARD advance in administrative matters.
It is a our huge pleasure to welcome Ms. Jelena Grosse-Bley to the YPARD Steering Committee.
Jelena hails from Hanover, Germany, and currently resides in Berlin during her studies as a PhD Candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Jelena bring extensive international cooperation experience to the YPARD Steering Committee; she has been a frequent visitor to mainland China since her teenage years. After she spent a year in Shanghai as a high school student, she added another few years in different places across Germany over the course of her university studies. While she started out in the big cities, food and environmental issues were part of everyday life in many shapes and forms. Jelena's first master thesis gave her the opportunity to learn more from food producers rather than the upper ends of supply chains more visible to most urbanites. The multitude of challenges to sustainable agriculture were striking, including the question of who would be willing and enabled to carry on farming under these conditions as older generations were leaving the field. Further studies in environmental management led Jelena deeper into specific modes of production that were trying to tackle the socio-ecological crux of sustainable and equitable farming, such as regenerative agriculture. This led to Jelena pursuing a PhD in social and cultural anthropology, deeply intrigued by the intimacy between agricultural producers and environmental changes. While interested in inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on food systems overall, she is particularly passionate about staying close to the production side in her own research. As such, she currently focusses on debates around crop seed (breeding) and rural meteorological services in the context of climate change adaptation in China.
In the YPARD Steering Committee, Jelena aims to bring attention to helping YPARD Asia-Pacific grow and deepen cooperation with other regions in YPARD. She is also enthusiastic about administrative aspects of running an international organization, and her attention to detail will be well placed to help YPARD advance in administrative matters.
Jóvenes de toda América Latina y el Caribe nos reuniremos el 15 y 16 de noviembre en Colombia para el encuentro “Juventud Rural, futuro sostenible”, organizado por la Red de Jóvenes profesionales por el Desarrollo Agrícola - LAC, la Cooperación Alemana al Desarrollo (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), y la Agencia Italiana de Cooperación (AICS Bogotá - sede Sudamérica).
En este espacio fortaleceremos nuestras capacidades en temas estratégicos como incidencia, agroecología, transición verde, acceso a tierra, extensión rural, innovación y emprendimiento.
Young people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean will meet on November 15 and 16 in Colombia for the meeting “Rural Youth, Sustainable Future”, organized by the Network of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development - LAC, the German Development Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), and the Italian Cooperation Agency (AICS Bogotá - South America headquarters).
In this space we will strengthen our capacities in strategic topics such as advocacy, agroecology, green transition, access to land, rural extension, innovation and entrepreneurship.
This event is held in conjunction with CIAT, International Land Coalition, European Union in Colombia, FAO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Fundación Apoyar, Latin American Network of Rural Extension Services - RELASER and AGROSAVIA - Colombian Research Corporation agriculture.
Jóvenes de toda América Latina y el Caribe nos reuniremos el 15 y 16 de noviembre en Colombia para el encuentro “Juventud Rural, futuro sostenible”, organizado por la Red de Jóvenes profesionales por el Desarrollo Agrícola - LAC, la Cooperación Alemana al Desarrollo (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), y la Agencia Italiana de Cooperación (AICS Bogotá - sede Sudamérica).
En este espacio fortaleceremos nuestras capacidades en temas estratégicos como incidencia, agroecología, transición verde, acceso a tierra, extensión rural, innovación y emprendimiento.
Young people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean will meet on November 15 and 16 in Colombia for the meeting “Rural Youth, Sustainable Future”, organized by the Network of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development - LAC, the German Development Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), and the Italian Cooperation Agency (AICS Bogotá - South America headquarters).
In this space we will strengthen our capacities in strategic topics such as advocacy, agroecology, green transition, access to land, rural extension, innovation and entrepreneurship.
This event is held in conjunction with CIAT, International Land Coalition, European Union in Colombia, FAO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Fundación Apoyar, Latin American Network of Rural Extension Services - RELASER and AGROSAVIA - Colombian Research Corporation agriculture.
Jóvenes de toda América Latina y el Caribe nos reuniremos el 15 y 16 de noviembre en Colombia para el encuentro “Juventud Rural, futuro sostenible”, organizado por la Red de Jóvenes profesionales por el Desarrollo Agrícola - LAC, la Cooperación Alemana al Desarrollo (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), y la Agencia Italiana de Cooperación (AICS Bogotá - sede Sudamérica).
En este espacio fortaleceremos nuestras capacidades en temas estratégicos como incidencia, agroecología, transición verde, acceso a tierra, extensión rural, innovación y emprendimiento.
Young people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean will meet on November 15 and 16 in Colombia for the meeting “Rural Youth, Sustainable Future”, organized by the Network of Young Professionals for Agricultural Development - LAC, the German Development Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), and the Italian Cooperation Agency (AICS Bogotá - South America headquarters).
In this space we will strengthen our capacities in strategic topics such as advocacy, agroecology, green transition, access to land, rural extension, innovation and entrepreneurship.
This event is held in conjunction with CIAT, International Land Coalition, European Union in Colombia, FAO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Fundación Apoyar, Latin American Network of Rural Extension Services - RELASER and AGROSAVIA - Colombian Research Corporation agriculture.