It’s finally here!!!! The 2015 Thought for Food Summit takes place today and Tech4Agri will be there live! The event is held in Lisbon, Portugal a beautiful city with rich culture, and food that serves as a prominent hub for entrepreneurship & innovation. Meet the finalists Hundreds of teams from universities all around the world entered the TFF Challenge, each diverse, motivated and brave enough to... Continue reading

This year the Thought for Food global summit was hosted on the 13th & 14th of February in the picturistic city of Lisbon. Words can’t fully describe what took place over these two days and I’m sure those who attended would share my sentiments. Thought for Food is a community, global movement and family dedicated to tackling the global challenge of feeding the estimated... Continue reading

From the 22nd of September to the 6th of October 2014, the e-Agriculture Community of Practice organized its 24th e-Agriculture forum as part of the participatory discussion on the theme “Communication for Development, community media and ICTs for family farming and rural development” organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC). The forum took... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome Michelle Kovacevic as YPARD Mentoring Coordinator.  Michelle is an experienced project manager and facilitator with a passion for improving youth engagement in national and global fora. She has coordinated and delivered comprehensive training workshops (both webinars and face to face) in social media, science communication, public speaking skills, facilitation and moderation skills for scientists, students, policymakers... Continue reading

Each year, UN-Water supports the World Water Day campaign by highlighting a specific aspect of freshwater. Under the theme ‘Water and Sustainable Development’, the year 2015 provides an important opportunity to consolidate and build upon the previous World Water Days to underline water's role in the sustainable development agenda. Water – Key to Food Security The link between water and food... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome YPARD’s new national representative for Philippines: Jim Leandro Cano. Jim is a 26-year old agriculture professional who feels passion for agricultural development, business, history, politics, and music. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with a major in Agricultural Systems from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). Before being Chairperson of... Continue reading

As part of YPARD’s ongoing partnership with Farming First – we are looking for our next young contributor who will be featured on the International Women’s Day (8th of March) on Farming First’s popular blog, which receives thousands of visitors each month. International Women’s Day – Successful Women Agripreneurs With a view to promote women agripreneurs, we are calling for young... Continue reading

Nigeria has continued to lead the pack of countries doing their best to revitalize the agriculture sector in Africa. It is further quite interesting to see the role many young people are playing in this dynamic field. Over the years, the activities of this youth network have continued to grow. Members have found a place to not only receive important information... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

YPARD is glad to welcome a new Steering Committee member: Christine Gould. Christine founded Thought For Food (TFF) out of her belief that the power to solve the most pressing challenges faced by humanity lies with the next generation.  TFF is a next generation powerhouse focused on empowering young innovators to develop breakthrough solutions for 9+ billion people. Through the TFF... Continue reading

“It felt really good - like a privilege; it felt humbling; youth felt empowered, integrated, and they sensed collaboration was possible between young people and senior professionals, for tackling major forestry issues where youth can help drive solutions.” Yi Ying told me, as we were reviewing how successful Youth’s participation was during the Forests Asia Summit, Jakarta, Indonesia, 5-6 May 2014.... Continue reading

YPARD is glad to welcome a new Steering Committee member: Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba. Sithembile is a young international development professional with experience in policy advocacy, agriculture development, poverty reduction, youth development and gender mainstreaming. She has a social science background having studied International Development and Sociology at the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town in South Africa.  Sithembile... Continue reading

AgTraIn, which stands for Agricultural Transformation by Innovation, is one of the few joint PhD programs within the Erasmus Mundus scheme of the European Commission. Six European universities participate in AgTraIn: University of Copenhagen, DenmarkUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, SpainMontpellier Supagro, FranceUniversity College of Cork, IrelandUniversita Degli Studi di Catania, ItalyWageningen University, The Netherlands The main focus of the program is on... Continue reading

Greetings YPARD members from the offices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Paris! The youth has an undeniable role to play in meeting the post-2015 challenges, and we would like to help showcase your innovative and tireless work in the agricultural sector. 10YFP + Global SCP Clearinghouse At the Rio+20 Conference, heads of state adopted a 10-Year Framework of... Continue reading

Agriculture is one of the most indispensable sectors cultivating life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinals and other products. Besides sustaining and enhancing human life, As we know, agriculture is interrelated with forestry, fishery, climate change, amongst others.  What is the Green Festival IPB 2014? At Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in Indonesia, the 2014 BEM KM IPB (Students’ Executive Boards) together... Continue reading

Our guest author, Nadya Karimasari, a researcher at Land Research Action Network opens our brand new blogging series that shines a spotlight on young people’s views and recommendations on sustainable agricultural development. This series is part of an ongoing partnership between Farming First and Young Professionals for Agricultural Development. Discussions on the role of youth in agriculture tend to be oversimplified into agriculture being... Continue reading

As customary on Tech4agri , we take the time to feature agriyouth like many of us out there striving for success. Understanding success factors certainly helps one along the way but it is not an exact formula. What is clear is that one must have that drive to pursue what he or she is truly after, exhausting every opportunity, to ensure they... Continue reading

What are Agribusiness Auction Markets? Auction market is a place where buyers and sellers enter competitive bids and offers respectively at the same time. Meanwhile, the agribusiness auction market matches bids and offers of respective customers and farmers who deal deal with agro-commodities. The agro-products are such as: cucumber, soybean, rice, chili, garlic, pepper, cattles, vegetable and essential oil, etc. According... Continue reading

Let’s make 2015 the year that youth are making a truly active contribution to agricultural development! Thank you for being part of a very successful year and I hope you are ready to take on 2015. At YPARD we have been developing the capacity of young professionals, advocating for their involvement in agricultural development and ensuring that they have a place... Continue reading

On the 11th and 12th of December, 2014 at the Mediterranean Institute of Agronomy (IAM) in Montpellier, 3 YPARD members attended the third preparatory meeting for 2015 Global Forum in Agricultural Research on the future. The main objective of these two days was to discuss the situation of Mediterranean rural communities in times of crisis and how not to forget them.... Continue reading