Africa

Strategies for transforming smallholder farming in Africa
21 Dec 2020
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Call for consultants: Production of regional synthesis of the Global YPARD Café
Open until08 Nov 2020
Land Accelerator
07 Sep 2019 to 12 Sep 2019
Young innovator develops bicycle-powered maize cleaning machine to help schoolchildren
20 Jun 2019
Increasing maize resistance to parasitic weeds: Admire Shayanowako
20 Jun 2019
Can mechanization drive youth into agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa? Join the online discussion
04 Apr 2019by Charles Plummer
Discussion: Youth and agriculture - challenges and opportunities in Africa
04 Apr 2019in Wageningen University
Youth employment in agriculture as a solid solution to ending hunger and poverty in Africa
13 Nov 2018
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Agricultural inputs to increase production in Ghana
17 Apr 2018by Sylvester Kwame Osei
Welcoming the new YPARD Nigeria representative: Eric Nyikwagh
19 Feb 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Agribusiness could be the next gate to youth employment in Africa
17 Nov 2017
African Youth Leadership Summit 2017, le sommet des jeunes d’Afrique.
06 Nov 2017by Aimé Kazika
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JICA Master’s Degree and Internship Program of African Business Education in Japan, 2017
Open until31 Oct 2017
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Sponsorship Opportunity to showcase at 6th EU-Africa Business Forum - Startup Fair
Open until20 Oct 2017
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U.S. department of agriculture — Borlaug fellowships in agricultural science and technology 2018
Open until05 Nov 2017
The future of agriculture in Nigeria
06 Sep 2017by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
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Consultant – Gender, Youth & Agri-business specialist with FARA
Open until28 Aug 2017
Engaging African youth in agribusiness in a changing climate; online discussion forum
11 Jul 2017 to 10 Aug 2017
Africa must start by treating agriculture as a business
14 May 2017
How to help Africa feed itself
14 May 2017
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U.S. Department of State — ADAPT Africa
Open until21 May 2017
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Orange Social Venture Prize 2017
Open until05 Jun 2017
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Prix Orange de l'Entrepreneur Social 2017
Open until05 Jun 2017
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West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use — Capacity Building Workshop
Open until14 Mar 2017
Is Africa really undergoing a smallholder agricultural revolution?
16 Feb 2017
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ENEA Access — Support for Energy Initiatives in Africa
Open until03 Mar 2017
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U.S. Agency for International Development — Off-Grid Solar Energy for Africa
Open until29 Apr 2017
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World Bank Scholarships Program
Open until22 Feb 2017
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Africa’s First Postharvest Loss Reduction Innovation Conference and Competition
Open until16 Feb 2017
Managing water is key to adapting African agriculture to climate change
02 Feb 2017

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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.