Rural development

YPARD Albania: 1000 reasons why food matters
19 Feb 2019by Entoni Rasku
Agri-cooperatives and institution for rural development
10 Sep 2018by Cristina Conea
ONGOING CONSULTATION: Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa
22 Jul 2018 to 03 Aug 2018
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Aga Khan Foundation — International Scholarships 2018-2019
Open until31 Mar 2018
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Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture — Seed Funding for Research and Training in Food Security
Open until01 Aug 2018
- Jobs
PhD position in the research education subject: Business administration, rural entrepreneurship
Open until06 Jun 2017
- Call for participation
Hungarian government scholarship 2017
Open until27 Jan 2017
- Funding
FAO - Hungarian Government Scholarship 2017-2018 - Introduction and procedures
Open until27 Feb 2017
- Jobs
International Technical assistant (ITA) - Agronomist expert in sustainable agricultural production techniques, Democratic Republic of Congo
Open until12 Jan 2017
- Jobs
Director of Project to Strengthen the Cocoa and Coffee Sector- SOCODEVI Monrovia, Liberia
Open until07 Jan 2017
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Lord Walston Scholarship for African Students at University of East Anglia in UK, 2017
Open until30 Mar 2017
- Funding
Royal Agricultural College — Land and Food Fellowships for Africans 2017
Open until14 Jan 2017
[VIDEO] - What are the realities, aspirations and challenges of rural youth in dryland areas?
15 Jul 2016
[VIDEO] - What are the realities, aspirations and challenges of rural youth in dryland areas?
15 Jul 2016
[VIDEO] - What are the realities, aspirations and challenges of rural youth in dryland areas?
15 Jul 2016
[VIDEO] - Quelles sont les réalités, les aspirations et les défis de la jeunesse rurale dans les zones arides?
15 Jul 2016
Youth Agripreneurship – a promised land for rural development?
27 Feb 2016by Maya Turolla
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World Bank Group Recruitment Drive for African Nationals
Open until30 Aug 2015
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Royal Agricultural College -- Land and Food Fellowships for Africans
Open until12 Sep 2015
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DAAD Scholarships MSc in Agribusiness and Rural Development
Open until30 Aug 2015
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DAAD Scholarships MSc in Agribusiness and Rural Development
Open until30 Aug 2015
From Learning to Adaptation: Working With Rural Youth in Microenterprise Development
18 Mar 2015
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European Commission (EC) -- Rural Development in Georgia
Open until09 Feb 2015
- Funding
Study in Europe - Erasmus Mundus: International MSc in Rural Development
Open until14 Mar 2015
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Erasmus Mundus International MSc in Rural Development (IMRD)
Open until14 Mar 2015
Agreement reached on actions to promote the participation and development of young people in agriculture
17 Dec 2014
Agreement reached on actions to promote the participation and development of young people in agriculture
17 Dec 2014
- Funding
Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize 2016: Grants for Nutrition, Water & Rural Development
Open until27 Feb 2015
Investing in Rural Infrastructure and Institutions to Empower Smallholder farmers, Wafaa El Khoury (IFAD)
19 Nov 2014
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
04 Nov 2014

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Youth success stories

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.

Believe in sustainability, food security, fight for the hungry: My Credo

In an era where population, technologies and modernization are fast growing, meeting up with the basic food needs of the population worldwide is one of the greatest challenges nations and international institutions are witnessing. Marc Ghislain shares his views on how the young people can be part of the solution and more importantly in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal number two.

La lutte contre la pauvreté : motivation, passion, profession et engagement!

Aimé Kazika describes his engagement with other young people to raise awareness so that they become more involved in the agricultural sector within the African and Congolese context.