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... More

This blogpost by Rustam Ibragimov originally appeared on the GFAR blog. Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the training Integrating gender and nutrition issues in agricultural extension systems… With this letter of invitation, I got an opportunity to participate in the practical training-workshop organized by INGENAES and CAC-FRAS where different stakeholders were involved. After completing it, I had the usual... More

This blogpost by Rustam Ibragimov originally appeared on the GFAR blog. I will tell you something that is not new to any of us. Today, nearly 1 billion people across the world face the problem of undernourishment. Agricultural development organizations do their best to tackle this ‘number one’ issue which is a problem of the whole generation nowadays and the generations... More

First experience in doing something is always a challenging and nervous moment. You have to be an ideal person to accomplish it successfully without feeling these emotions. However, I am not an ideal person and nobody is. The most memorable time of the first step for me is standing in front of the audience and delivering a message. In this case,... More

Generally, young generation and agriculture – two word combinations that are not completely moving in unison nowadays. What is the reason for that? What kind of boundaries and barriers exist? I have always been an active supporter of young scientists’ exclusive role in developing agricultural research. This is mainly done in order to struggle with basically two challenging stereotypes causing the... More