In the past few years, YPARD has worked on a series of activities to better prepare young people for the job market. A 2011 research study examined the skills needed by today’s youth in agriculture and a career fair examined youth’s “employability” at Tropentag in Prague in 2014. Partnerships with university consortia like GCHERA, RUFORUM and Agrinatura, also invited young professionals... Continue reading

Empowering youth in agriculture comes with building a team of professionals who collectively think and advocate for the sustainable future of agriculture. 2016 marks  the 10years of impactful existence of Young Professional for Agricultural Development (YPARD) across the globe. Placing young people at the center of decision making and policy is key to achieving the sustainable development goals and YPARD objectives. Thematically, in... Continue reading

October 20, 2007 will forever be in my history book. The day marks the moment of truth of my life. It was a sunny day. My family had just returned from farm very early this time. By12:00pm, the family was already home. Very unusual of the African farmer isn`t it? Don`t mind me! I mean I was expecting them in the... Continue reading

The impact of social media has increased dramatically on every level of humanity. Twitter, Facebook and any type of social networking is used in variety even sometimes unimaginable ways for studying, working or marketing. A research shows that an average person in 2015 has five social media accounts and spends around 1 and half hour in the network every day. Then,... Continue reading

Most people assume that social media sharing is easy, but indeed it requires quite a bit of effort to do more than share every blog post on social media.  There are tons of opportunities to promote your blog, ideas, or business on every one of the social networks, but for most people it’s not available for them to use. Social media... Continue reading

This is my question, while am preparing to be involved in the event of CFS 43.  Networking about networks... Nominated by YPARD, I am going to write blogs about the meeting of CFS 43, for social networks. I am not a blogger, but I believe in the necessary global efforts and in the role of young generations. Being an engineer, this... Continue reading

At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, Jose Luis Zevallos Anfossi, a young agriculturist based in Argentina who recently joined YPARD tells us what inspired and aspired him to join  from his very fresh perspective and as someone who lives in a country where there is no YPARD Country chapter yet. He talks about his visions and hope as a new... Continue reading

YPARD Kenya and African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) partnered to convene a session in ACCRA Ghana during this year's CAADP Partners Platform on the 12th of April 2016. This was the only youth session for the entire 3 days of CAADP PP under the sponsorship of the Africa Union (AU). The side event theme Financing Youth in Agriculture aimed at... Continue reading

From 24th – 26th August, 2016, YPARD Zimbabwe took part in the Zimbabwe Youth Agripreneurship Summit 2016 an event  organized by the Zimbabwe Farmers Union at ZESA Training Centre, Belvedere, Harare, Zimbabwe. As the YPARD Zimbabwe Country Representative, I took part in the event both as a presenter and as a facilitator with a focus on youth and climate change. My presentation Putting... Continue reading

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity; it has aggravated water crises, drought, frequent wildfires, food shortages, weaker societal unity, hindered economic growth and increased security risks, inequality and poverty. But, ultimately, this is the issue of the Millennial Generation and how we deal with it now defines what will we be dealing with in the future.... Continue reading

It finally happened: YPARD-Uzbekistan officially organized a national meeting which was held at ICARDA-Tashkent office on 12th August 2016. Eight young professionals, two ICARDA-Tashkent officials doubled up as observers and a number of ICARDA junior and senior researchers were presented at the meeting. After we had successfully organized a national meeting at Tashkent State Agrarian University together with CACAARI earlier this... Continue reading

We’re live! We finally did it! Check out our latest promo above. Tech4agri is now airing on local television station SynergyTV! It is nothing short of a milestone. As previous blog posts will show it was long and difficult road to get here but we actually did it. This television station airs locally but is part of the FLOW cable service line up... Continue reading

Meet Steve Maximay. He is a consultant running his business Science Based Initiatives out of the island of Grenada. He has created a trade marked licensed tool called the Climate Smart Agriculture Compliance tool (CSAC). The tool is a simple checklist but its robustness lies in being able to be converted to a numeric scale out of 100. This now makes it easier to... Continue reading

World markets are flooding with new and more competent food products. Both durability and shelf life of the products have been increased by a variety of packaging techniques and the techniques required for enhancing the nutrient content. Further, market competitiveness had made the growers and sellers to come out with new and deleterious methods of market procurement. The farming community had... Continue reading

“It is apparent that social media is not confined to the corporate world. It has its place in agriculture, business, education and every other sector. Additionally, agriculture is not a primitive or decadent field. It sustains the human race providing opportunities for self-sufficiency, innovation and food security. Understanding these learning outcomes, the importance of agribusiness and how social media influences everything... Continue reading

In April, the six finalists in GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Agripreneur Project headed back to their homes in the four corners of the world after an intense week of orientation and skills building at the GCARD3 Global Event, to embark on their personal adventures–and tackle their particular challenges–in agricultural entrepreneurship. Over the last three months, Jax, Anil, Nikki, Lillian, Jony, and Kellyann have taken what they learned... Continue reading

In April, the six finalists in GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Agripreneur Project headed back to their homes in the four corners of the world after an intense week of orientation and skills building at the GCARD3 Global Event, to embark on their personal adventures–and tackle their particular challenges–in agricultural entrepreneurship. Over the last three months, Jax, Anil, Nikki, Lillian, Jony, and Kellyann have taken what they learned... Continue reading

In April, the six finalists in GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Agripreneur Project headed back to their homes in the four corners of the world after an intense week of orientation and skills building at the GCARD3 Global Event, to embark on their personal adventures–and tackle their particular challenges–in agricultural entrepreneurship. Over the last three months, Jax, Anil, Nikki, Lillian, Jony, and... Continue reading

I am happy to inform you that there is an ongoing study on Youth and Family Farming, from the World Rural Forum, carried out by the Universitat Politècnica de València. The geographical scope of the study is global and the main point is to draw up a diagnosis of the current situation and to collect experiences on youth and family farming.... Continue reading

Globally agriculture is being practised under different agro-ecosystems using numerous technologies for crop production in order to have higher production. This is done through exploitation of natural resources like soil, water, air and solar radiation. Conservation agriculture (CA) on other hand is based on sustained yield level through resource optimization and is central to safe and healthy natural resources as well... Continue reading