It’s time for a revolution in the food system—young and new farmers need government support to nourish future generations. Farmers, businesses, policy-makers, and educators need to promote agriculture as an intellectually stimulating and economically sustainable career—and make jobs in agriculture and the food system “cool” for young people all over the world.Food Tank, as the presenter of Pivot TV and TakePart’s... Continue reading

We are pleased to welcome the firsts YPARD Rwanda Communications Liaisons: Sharon Munyazikwiye and Clet Iyamenye. Sharon, the youth activist Sharon is a passionate and activist in youth and agriculture development, with a degree in Environmental Chemistry by the former National University of Rwanda and a Business Management Certificate by the Universal Class TM. With working experience both in Communications and... Continue reading

After 20 years, this year has been the first time when I’ve seen such a positive impact of agritourism in Nepal. The Nepalese village of Bhurjungkhola has well integrated two major income generating sources of Nepalese livelihood to uplift the community standard: agriculture and tourism. The Bhunpare-Ghalekharka trekking route under the Annapurna Conservation Area Project and the Tatopani pilgrimage site are... Continue reading

The group of local women Shanti Ama Samuha had the commitment to maintain greenery in their surrounding environment within the program "Women Awareness Program on Climate Change and Solid Waste Management" organized by Tunza Eco Generation, a month ago in Bharatpur, Nepal. Due to the well accomplishment of the program, these women not only did they arouse local community’s awareness on... Continue reading

Agroforestry is a worthwhile land-use option which provides conspicuous roles in preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, transforming landscapes and achieving sustainable forestry and agriculture. Besides, agroforestry is a ‘panaceae’ to accelerate these three pillars of sustainable development, as well as to transform lives, particularly young rural farmers’ livelihoods. How does agroforestry transform smallholders’ lives? The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) conducts agroforestry... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Hungary: Mónika Varga. Mónika is an agricultural engineer. After finishing her Bachelor degree, she joined the Research Group on Process Network Engineering at Kaposvár University, Hungary where later on she made an extension as an agriculture teacher. At the end of her PhD studies in management and organizational science,... Continue reading

Reducing post harvest losses could work out for compressing food wastage. For this purpose, technology experts and crop scientists should start a program with the collaboration of the World Food Preservation Center, FAO, YPARD and several other concerned institutions that are already involved in reducing food wastage around the world. Youth involvement in activities organized by the community in the different... Continue reading

Why do I say ‘Youth’ as the fifth dimension of Agriculture Sustainability. What about the rest of the four? It would be fair to begin with the conventional understanding of sustainability that rests on three cores dimensions viz., social, economic and ecological. The golden triangle of sustainability theory stands on addressing social dimension i.e. how humans use or interact with natural... Continue reading

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) with the slogan “Feeding the World, Caring the Earth.” To mark the IYFF and on occasion of the World International Youth Day, YPARD Nepal, in collaboration with AgriYouthNepal (AYN) and Nepal Agricultural Cooperative Central Federation Ltd. (NACCFL), announces “YPARD Nepal Family Farming Photo Contest.” A competition from all Nepalese... Continue reading

From 21st to 22nd July 2014, the Cameroon National Inception Workshop CORY (Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth) project was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon. YPARD Cameroon was invited to provide inputs to the design of the project in the country as well as to be a potential national implementing partner. On behalf of the coordination team, the Centre region representative, Gwladys Mabah,... Continue reading

Closing our "All in one Rhythm" series on YPARD´s blog, we aim to show the perspective of different actors in agriculture in Brazil. Here comes the interview with Tatiana Reis, a Professor in Agribusiness Management at the Brasilia University, Brazil. Tatiana Reis is a Professor in Agribusiness Management at the University of Brasilia. She has a Master in Agribusiness Management and... Continue reading

High up in the Swiss Alps looking over Lake Geneva, I couldn’t but think about “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table”. Imagine a small group of people, discussing global issues, sharing their experiences from the field rather than just policies, project designs and scientific reports, in an environment inviting them to interact freely. Although I doubt that the... Continue reading

YPARD China's cooperation meeting with Oxfam and Lsm Rural Reconstruction Center (RRC) of RUC was held in CAAS on June 25th, 2012. YPARD China Representative, Secretary and Communication and web officers, Oxfam Program Oficer and Managers from Lsm Rural Reconstruction Center (RRC) of RUC participated. After nearly 4 hours discussion, agreements on the following points were made for future cooperation: For the annual... Continue reading

The Creating Opportunities for Rural Youth (CORY) workshop was held in Nigeria at Songhai Farms, Rivers State from 14th to 15th July, 2014. It was a 2 day workshop aimed at informing participants of the overview of CORY project and opportunities available for rural youths 15-35 years in Farm and Non-farm enterprises in the next 3 years (2014 – 2017), understanding... Continue reading

The key outcomes of YPARD Strategic meetings of January 2014 Two key strategic meetings took place this January 2014, at YPARD. A strategic planning gathered major partners, donors, and YPARD representatives at different levels – national, regional, global, and the steering committee. Based on the progress done by YPARD these last years, and the results of the 2013 External Review particularly,... Continue reading

The Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC), the apex body of agricultural research in Nepal, posted a job announcement some weeks ago in which it offered 72 scientist positions (S1) -only for those who have a Master-. However, hardly two third of the vacancies were filled. According to the latest Economic Survey of Nepal (2013/14), the total number of students enrolled in... Continue reading

As we all know, in the past decades, China has undergone an unprecedented urbanization process and a rapid economic growth. At the same time, the ecology and environment have also been seriously destructed. Air quality is degraded and is threatening the public health; water pollution, water shortage and related disasters all together had made the overall situation more difficult to handle.... Continue reading

In a speech to his fellow Ghanaians in the early 1900s, the visionary educator, Dr. J.E. Kwegyir Aggrey, declared, “The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.” Living in a healthy environment... Continue reading

The UNEP TUNZA SEAYEN meeting is an annual prominent gathering organized by Southeast Asia countries in which young leaders and sophisticated environmentalists are encouraged to discuss environmental problems. The 7th meeting was held in Singapore on the 30th of May, 2014 and was organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), TUNZA –which means “to treat with care or affection” in... Continue reading

Dear Ypardians, TEAM-Africa is conducting a development study titled “Prospective Study on Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE) in Africa“. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze, with a medium-long term perspective as well as a continental based focus, the changes that are expected in the agri-food sector and their likely impacts on the development of TAE in Africa. Obtained under... Continue reading