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Youth success stories

From the Czech Republic to Asia, Africa and beyond my agricultural story so far!

Introducing Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies, leader of the Biogas Research Team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), an agriculture enthusiast with a passion for his work and the second-youngest member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy platform of the Czech Republic.

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

5 years of YPARD: a life-changing journey

"Being a YPARD representative gave me so many empowering opportunities, but also a chance to empower others" Testimonial by Ivana Radic Jean highlighting her experience and journey in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Serbia community since February 2013.

YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!

In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.

Good-bye from YPARD Nepal: Creating a space for young leaders

This testimonial by Dinesh Panday highlights his experience in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Nepal community since 2012. He is currently a doctoral graduate research assistant (2016-2019) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former YPARD Nepal country representative.

A season of innovation

The climate-smart irrigation system was designed with the aim of addressing these challenges; by collecting rainwater, transferring it below the soil surface and using it during the time of low rainfall thus making water available and accessible for perennial plants all year round.

Climate resilient agriculture and producer-consumer justice through ICT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 was created to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to ensure climate resilient agriculture and ICT based business promotional interventions from producer to consumer level. Youth, therefore, can play a supporting role to increase awareness and promote the agenda of SDG for agricultural sustainability to make sure others are aware of it.

From nowhere to somewhere; YPARD made a way

Marc Ghislain tells about all the changing scenes in his life as a young professional in agriculture: the anxiety in choosing a profession in agriculture and how his engagement with YPARD helped him find his feet in the agricultural sector.

A non-traditional career path

I strongly support and believe in an inclusive and equitable quality education together with lifelong learning opportunities for all. It is very important that we start to facilitate more flexible career paths in science if we want to encourage diversity and creativity. Being a lifelong learner is a value of sustainable self-development. It opens the door to life-changing, rewarding, fulfilling and continuous growth.

Easier said than done: Gender equality and women empowerment

The role of young people in helping shift gender perceptions is paramount. We can no longer employ tradition and culture as excuses for allowing basic inequalities between genders to occur and to keep perpetuating themselves. We need to acknowledge and cherish culture, but also acknowledge that culture is not a static entity and that it can, and must, evolve towards a more equal society.

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ICDCA 2021: 15. International Conference on Digital and Computational Agriculture
25 Oct 2021 to 26 Oct 2021
International interdisciplinary conference on land use and water quality agriculture and the environment
27 Sep 2021 to 30 Sep 2021in Maastricht
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Become an OECD Intern

Programme quality support officer (volunteer) for Armenia

Administrators in the field of sustainable agriculture and rural development

Postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences - Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Call for applications: YPARD Director

Funding

University of Science and Technology of Hanoi — Masters Studies 2021-2022

Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education — MENA Scholarship Program

Volkswagen Foundation — Funding for Young Researchers

Minor Foundation for Major Challenges — Public Awareness on Climate Change

German Government — International Climate Initiative Medium Grants

Call for participation

Online course: WageningenX's Food Security and Sustainability XSeries Program

Youth entrepreneurship in agriculture and changing food systems 2021

International Internship Program (I2P) at the Gregor Mendel Institute

YIL 2021 project teams

Now open! UN global compact SDG pioneers

Agrobiodiversity Summer School 2021

ICDCA 2021: 15. International Conference on Digital and Computational Agriculture

International interdisciplinary conference on land use and water quality agriculture and the environment

ICSD 2021 : 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 8 - 9 September Rome, Italy

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