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

Innovation on agriculture tends to increase due to information development and communication technology. As a result, the gap between rural and urban agriculture is not easily denied. For instance, agricultural extension workers always confront innovation gaps as they complete their tasks as farmers’ partners. On the other hand, research institutions harbor many funds to produce innovations. Thus, both workers and institutions... Continue reading

Farmers and youth are key players in putting agriculture on the agenda in the UN Climate Talks It is not always usual to find such a diverse group from different backgrounds, views and ages come together to discuss issues, especially in a small room. But when farmers, youth and the indigenous people’s representatives sat together with scientists, climate change negotiators and other... Continue reading

According to Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture (2011/2012), 65.6% of Nepali population is involved in agriculture and is still suffering from food insecurity and starvation. Though many inventions, policies and efforts were made in order to improve Nepali citizens’ livelihoods, effective and significant results haven’t been yet appreciated. Nepalese Brain drain migration Nepal’s demographic condition reveals that in every development region... 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

"This is true, when a hawker shouts in streets and lanes to collect and buy trashed papers from house as well as watching a video song in cell phone, to imagine undoubtedly the fascination of mobile use in Bangladesh" said by Dr. Craig Meisner, Country Director, World Fish Center at the very early morning of 3rd December at E-AG Conference 2014. This... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD country representative for Egypt: Assem Abu Hatab. Assem is an economist. After finishing his PhD, Assem worked as an assistant researcher in the College of Economics & Management of Northwest A&F University in China. Afterwards, he worded a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University (USA). Moreover, Assem was a... Continue reading

Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) has been working in Ghana’s agricultural sector since 2004. Engineering is a bit of a misnomer, as we don’t build bridges or roads. Instead, we use the engineering framing of problem solving and systems thinking to address some of the root causes of poverty in Africa. Youth: Global Change Makers Agriculture is the cornerstone of development... Continue reading

Adapting to the trend of open data, promoting agricultural data sharing and application - those are a few of the problems that six teams aimed to tackle at a Hackathon during November 18th to 20th 2014 in the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). The event, sponsored by GFAR, CIARD and FAO, was co-hosted by YPARD Asia. It was the first time... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome our new YPARD Country representative for Brazil: Gustavo Togeiro de Alckmin. Gustavo studied Agriculture at the College of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” of the University of São Paulo and holds a Msc. on Agricultural Systems for Local Development from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the University of Montpellier SupAgro. Coming from a long family line... Continue reading

Technical Online Communicators, IT professionals of different CGIAR centers and its partners organizations along with external experts on different web related matters participated in a five day workshop from the 15th to the 19th of September, 2014 at Bioversity International´s centre in Maccarese, Italy. Technical Online Communicators (TOCs) is a community of practice comprising webmasters, web developers and social media coordinators... Continue reading

“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning." T.S. Eliot More than a year has passed since I asked Courtney Paisley, YPARD director, to be the very first YPARD representative in Brazil. At the time, I was still amazed by the fact that one of... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Turkey: Eren Taskin. Eren studied Agricultural engineering and Horticulture in Ege University of Izmir, Turkey. After his studies, he took a master on Organic Agriculture in CIHEAM Institute of Bari, Italy where he had the opportunity to learn a lot from experiences of many specialists who work on issues... Continue reading

Under the theme "No more left behind: rural communities in times of transitions", the Foundation for South-North Mediterranean Dialogue in association with the Global Forum of Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina organized the Second Preparatory Meeting for the 2015 Global Congress during the period November 8-9, 2014 in Alexandria, Egypt. Soliman Ayash and Yasmeen Sobhy, Egypt-based members of YPARD, were... Continue reading

We are delighted to welcome our very first YPARD Country representative for Tanzania: Juma Bruno Ngomuo. Juma has a degree in Rural Development from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). Over the past few months, Juma has provided social media consultancy services for a range of events aimed at driving policy change in favour of agriculture. Among them was the Regional Youth... Continue reading

While youth comprise about 70 percent of the population in Malawi, most of them contend with poverty and HIV/AIDS and lack access to the necessary opportunities to empower and change their lives. Realizing the potential in Malawi's young people, the Kawjo Foundation has charged the youth with the management of the Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture (IAA) project in the Lilongwe district. IAA is... Continue reading

Maize will play an important role in the coming future for meeting rising demand for food, feed, nutrition and environment security. However, this nutritious crop needs further promotion for human consumption to fulfil under-nutrition in Asia-Pacific. Food, feed, nutrition and environment security The 12th Asian Conference and Expert Consultation on Maize for Food, Feed, Nutrition and Environment Security was organized on... Continue reading

FARA recently hosted a meeting October 20-22, 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya on FARA/CGIAR Collaboration Workshop on Climate Change, Youth Engagement, Food Security and Agricultural Transformation in Africa.  The meeting took 1.5 days to discuss Climate Smart Agriculture and the second 1.5 days to obtain youth input on the development of a FARA youth strategy. It was great to see so many... Continue reading