“Young People are being heard, but what do they have to say?” While youth’s participation and involvement is significantly increasing at global development conferences, one would argue that youths’ messages still often need to be strengthened. Young people may sometimes struggle stepping back and expressing what their specific burdening issues and aspirations are. We want to change that for young people at... More

With a population of close to 35m people, a total area of 241,038 square kilometres, and a forest cover of 4.9 million hectares, which represent just around 14.5% of the total area, Uganda is the most deforested country in East Africa. Besides, between 1990 and 2005, it experienced a 15% decrease in forest cover driven by increased land use for agriculture... More

In this guest blog post, Madhu Sudhan Ghimire, an agriculture student from Nepal urges for action to be taken to support rural communities and farmers, to avoid a food crisis in the country following the recent earthquake. This post is part of the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) network’s ongoing partnership with Farming First. It was Saturday 25th of April 2015: a normal day when... More

Industry leaders, researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs and students of different universities gathered from 19-21 February for the 9th International Poultry Show and Seminar 2015 in the Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The objective: improving food safety to help create a substantial poultry industry in Bangladesh. Both show and seminar were organized by the World's Poultry Science Association Bangladesh Branch (WPSA-BB), the... More

The presence and involvement of the global youth community has been prioritized at the XIV World Forestry Congress. It offers to the youth a great opportunity to engage in scientific and policy deliberations on forestry issues like never before! Young people will be engaged throughout the Congress process. It will enable vital youth contributions that stem from debates among peers as... More

On the 11th and 12th of December, 2014 at the Mediterranean Institute of Agronomy (IAM) in Montpellier, 3 YPARD members attended the third preparatory meeting for 2015 Global Forum in Agricultural Research on the future. The main objective of these two days was to discuss the situation of Mediterranean rural communities in times of crisis and how not to forget them.... More

Last November 19-21, 2014 the 2nd International Conference on Forestry Education and Research for the Asia-Pacific Region with the theme, “Forestry Education and Research: Gearing Towards ASEAN 2015” was held at the Umali Auditorium of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna. The conference aimed to strengthen the contribution of forestry education and research towards sustainable forest management in the context... More