Josine Macaspac was one of the six finalists of the GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project, who returned to her home in the Philippines to start building the Mechanical Post-Harvest Pest Removal System (MPReS): a manually-operated, mechanical device that can be used by farmers to easily and effectively remove post-harvest and storage pests in stored rice, corn and other grains. As one of the... Continue reading

Nikki Chaudhary was one of the six finalists of the GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project, who returned to India in April to carry out a project related to the pure Gir breed cattle of India. She purchased six of these climate-resilient cattle and is in the process of evaluating their suitability for dairy farming in India. As one of the... Continue reading

Anil Regmi was one of the six finalists of GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project. As one of the YAPpers, he received an intensive training helping her strengthen the business plan proposal presented with measurable milestones. Anil was also able to better engage in social media campaigning activities to ensure his project gained support. In addition, he has now has a mentor to help guide... Continue reading

Impacting lives constitutes one of the main reasons for human existence and what a feeling of fulfilment one has when you work closely with smallholder farmers especially within the clan of farming communities to ensure better farming practices and livelihood! The farming of our time has changed from farming for poor people to farming as a business enterprise, with the aim... Continue reading

The agricultural production is the main economy activity in Gambia but it has declined as a result of several factors including poor rainfall distribution, weak marketing infrastructure, lack of access to credit (especially for youth and women) with limited resources base. The access to healthy and affordable food for the public is not easy, as well as the marketing of farmers’ products... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome the YPARD Netherlands country representative, Ingrid Flink. Ingrid is a graduate with a Master’s degree in Applied Communication Science specialising in Food and Health at the Wageningen University, Netherlands. She is currently a Junior Advisor at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) for the Sustainable Economic Development and Gender unit and a member of the Prolinnova network,... Continue reading

As you prepare for the future, it is only natural to engage the new generation. That's the World Farmers’ Organization 's belief. This international organization of farmers for farmers is defining its Strategic Framework 2018-2028 and walking the talk in involving young farmers into giving directions to draw the way forward. Not only does WFO put its members center and forefront as the driver... Continue reading

It was a brand new saturday morning with a conducive atmosphere, pleasing environment and a perfect view to the sea. Our mindsets were ready to kick-off the day and it was amazing to observe all participants attending the second day of the RESCAR-AOC International workshop. The workshop was axed on the notions of climate change and agripreneurship to promote Rural Advisory Services... Continue reading

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Plan with them. Build with what they have. Teach by showing. Learn by doing. When the best leader’ work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say “we have done it ourselves.” Lao Tzu, founder of Tao philosophy, 700 B.C. Agricultural topics have... Continue reading

by YPARD's CFS43 social reporting team: Monika Varga, Melano Dadalauri, Anudari Enkhtor and Diego Valencia Have you ever felt extremely tired but happy at the same time? Could you relate to the feeling of not realizing that you are tired because you enjoyed the work so much?  That’s what we as four members of Young Professionals for Agriculture Development (YPARD) felt... Continue reading

At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, Nadia Manning-Thomas, Partnerships Manager at the CGIAR System Management Office, reflects on herself and the role of YPARD and CGIAR in growing talents. I am delighted to contribute to the one-year-long celebrations of 10 years of YPARD through this blog piece in which I reflect on how I, CGIAR and YPARD have-together- all grown over this time.... Continue reading

“Sorry. I don’t know what you are saying.” “But I don’t think it’s possible.” “Are you trying to fool me. WE have never heard of it.” This quoted statement were exactly what I got in reply when I was on a survey for extension service nearby village of my University two year back. Their reply come as a shock to me... Continue reading

Human civilization has evolved along with animals. Animals being an integral part of environment has become an integral part of humans and humanity. Human race depends upon animals for nutrition, security, recreation, transportation, drought work, clothing fibre, etc.  Nowadays, livestock rearing and husbandry practices have been greatly improved. Small farmers related to livestock farming are planning to go larger and possess... Continue reading

As agricultural mechanization gains daily popularity amongst Nigerian farmers and key agricultural stakeholders, what comes readily to mind at the instance of mechanized farming – as some prefer to call it – are tractors, plough, harrow, planters, automated feed conveyors/drinkers, automated feed millers to mention just a few. Crop production – one of the two components of agriculture in Nigeria –... Continue reading

What happens when you take 150 people and ask them to design a session together? Some might say chaos, others might say equitable participation. At the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, we subscribe to the school of the latter – no matter how much trickier diversity may make processes, it is important. So when it came to running our fourth youth session at the Global... Continue reading

Jokalante est une plateforme mise en place par un consortium d’organismes internationaux dans le cadre du projet Tic Mbay (Tic pour l’agriculture en langue wolof). Elle a pour ambition la vulgarisation de la production agricole à travers les technologies de l’information et de la communication. C’est une entreprise sociale, dont le mot en langue wolof "Jokalante" signifie dialogue ou échange d'idées. La plateforme offre... Continue reading

The 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum has kicked off today in Colombo and its expected to bring together an estimated of 800 national delegates, 500 scientists, and over 1,00,000 public participants for the 3 day event which ends on October 20. This forum will, in its sessions, focus on a number of climate change adaptation issues which will cover a range... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome the new YPARD Romania Country representative Ramona Mihaela Ciubotaru. Ramona is a  graduate of  Bachelor degree in agriculture from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Iasi (Romania). She currently lives in Italy and is enrolled in her 2nd year of Master studies on Science Programme in Sustainable IPM Technologies for... Continue reading

 A training workshop on ‘Web and Technical Learning Bootcamp’ was held at National Maize Research Program in Rampur, Chitwan from September 25-27. It was organized by US Embassy Youth Council in collaboration with Agri Youth Nepal(AYN), a group of enthusiastic students from Agriculture and Forestry University who are attempting to bring together three elements; youth, ICT and agriculture while at the... Continue reading

As a crux of world economy, agriculture feeds and clothes the whole planet. Though human civilization commenced with hunting and gathering, chasing and foraging couldn’t feed every mouth. People then started cultivating to make their food easily accessible. But overtime, traditional agriculture couldn’t meet rushing demand. Scarcity then gave rise to human innovations and the technological era commenced in agriculture. Tractors... Continue reading