From the Central to the West, to the North and the East, the YPARD Café caravan traversed Uganda with the main aim of empowering and training young farmers to be incorporated into the food value chain systems to foster food security across Uganda and Africa as a whole. On 22nd January 2021, the bus was set for Kagadi District in the... More

Most often, youth have claim that access to land is the biggest hindrance to their involvement in agriculture and agribusiness. When asked why they still find it hard to engage in agriculture, the common answer given by the youth is, “I don’t have land to start agriculture.” Land is the most valued and top factor of production and without it, indeed... More

With a common goal to transform the agricultural sector in Uganda, YPARD Uganda executive held a first face-to-face meeting. This is the first since they since they took office just several months ago. The meeting was to deliberate on key factors on how YPARD could contribute on to the development of agriculture and also make deliberations on what needs to be... More

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future”. This is a famous quote by the former president of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It’s a reflection of what youth can do to nations when well empowered to be agents of positive change. It is by far no doubt... More

From the 26th to 29th of June 2017, Uganda hosted the Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Youth Conference under the theme “Enhancing the ability of youth to build ecosystem resilience”. The conference was centered on areas of climate action and youth involvement in the agriculture sector. Dr. Revocatus Twinomuhangi the coordinator of Makerere University Center for Climate Research and Innovation (MUCCRI), opened the... More

Agriculture across Africa is considered as the largest employing sector, taking on over 70% of the overall workforce. The sector is highly dominated by the elderly, mainly women.And the youth, who constitute the biggest percentage of Africa’s population, have deserted the sector for purportedly “lucrative sectors”. Many youth consider agriculture as an activity for rural people or the illiterates and those... More

Agriculture is Uganda’s biggest employing sector, with over 70% of Ugandans engaged in the sector. The sector contributes over 25% to the total gross domestic product (GDP). However, the biggest percentage of those engaged in the sector are elderly men and women, whose production capacity and energy cannot sustain the sector. The energetic and Uganda’s largest population composition, the Youth have... More