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YPARD Latin Party!

Following the pace of the celebrations around the globe, the peruvian team convened the community to blow YPARD 10 years' birthday candles, as part of the activities developed in a very special edition of YPARD Cafe. YPARD in Peru As is known, the peruvian community was activated this year with a renewed group of professionals from different specialties with a common... More
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel (FINALLY)

Josine Macaspac was one of the six finalists of the GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project, who returned to her home in the Philippines to start building the Mechanical Post-Harvest Pest Removal System (MPReS): a manually-operated, mechanical device that can be used by farmers to easily and effectively remove post-harvest and storage pests in stored rice, corn and other grains. As one of the... More
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Bees and the busy rural youth

Jony Girma was one of the six finalists of the GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Argripreneur Project, who proposed a “Self-help Business Model in Harmony with Nature”, a plan to establish a demonstration site inside beekeepers’ villages in rural Ethipoia where beekeepers can receive training, share experience and put new technologies to the test before adopting them. By equiping beekeepers, especially youth, with the... More
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Working together in the rural areas of the Mediterranean

In October 2015, key partners in the Mediterranean region met to ensure that rural communities in the region were not forgotten from development activities in the south and north of the Mediterranean.  Where are we at, one year later? How far has the Foundation of the South-North Mediterranean Dialogue come in generating rich dialogue as vector of peace and tolerance? What about... More
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Is the Road of an Entrepreneur Ever a Straight One?

Kellyann Allicott was one of the six finalists of the GFAR and YPARD’s Youth Agripreneur Project, who returned to Barbados in April to carry out a project related to developing a line of natural skin care products using raw materials from naturally derived sources, such as organic produce (herbs, spices and fruit) purchase from local and regional farmers. As one of... More
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Prospects of Livestock Farming For Unemployed Youth

Human civilization has evolved along with animals. Animals being an integral part of environment has become an integral part of humans and humanity. Human race depends upon animals for nutrition, security, recreation, transportation, drought work, clothing fibre, etc.  Nowadays, livestock rearing and husbandry practices have been greatly improved. Small farmers related to livestock farming are planning to go larger and possess... More
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This is how you mobilise 150 people to design a conference session together

What happens when you take 150 people and ask them to design a session together? Some might say chaos, others might say equitable participation. At the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, we subscribe to the school of the latter – no matter how much trickier diversity may make processes, it is important. So when it came to running our fourth youth session at the Global... More
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EduMala: A Learning Platform of Facilitators

In early August this year, I was privileged to facilitate as a mentor in a virtual course of two-week period for 25 young and enthusiastic college graduates, researchers, entrepreneurs, veterinarians from Nepal and a couple of African countries. There were several reasons for me to choose the course- “Managing Livestock-based Community Development Projects”. For the fresh graduates of animal-agriculture or veterinary... More
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How we can best attract youth to the agriculture sector?

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
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Shrinking Pollinators: A Hot Potato

Biological beings coherently coexists in nature.  Various interactions in biological world have aided in sustaining the nature in its balance form. Among all the interactions the association between pollinators and plant has been most useful to humans since the dawn of civilization. By transferring the pollen from one plant to the other, pollinators helps in production of fruits, nuts and seeds.... More
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We finally did it! Tech4agri on TV

We’re live! We finally did it! Check out our latest promo above. Tech4agri is now airing on local television station SynergyTV! It is nothing short of a milestone. As previous blog posts will show it was long and difficult road to get here but we actually did it. This television station airs locally but is part of the FLOW cable service line up... More
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Onward with YPARD Trinidad and Tobago

“It is apparent that social media is not confined to the corporate world. It has its place in agriculture, business, education and every other sector. Additionally, agriculture is not a primitive or decadent field. It sustains the human race providing opportunities for self-sufficiency, innovation and food security. Understanding these learning outcomes, the importance of agribusiness and how social media influences everything... More
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Involving Youth in Conservation Agriculture for a Sustainable Future- A Farmer's perspective

Globally agriculture is being practised under different agro-ecosystems using numerous technologies for crop production in order to have higher production. This is done through exploitation of natural resources like soil, water, air and solar radiation. Conservation agriculture (CA) on other hand is based on sustained yield level through resource optimization and is central to safe and healthy natural resources as well... More
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JOKALANTE, services TIC pour un changement positif dans l'agriculture

Jokalante est une plateforme mise en place par un consortium d’organismes internationaux dans le cadre du projet Tic Mbay (Tic pour l’agriculture en langue wolof). Elle a pour ambition la vulgarisation de la production agricole à travers les technologies de l’information et de la communication. C’est une entreprise sociale, dont le mot en langue wolof "Jokalante" signifie dialogue ou échange d'idées. La plateforme offre... More
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Mushroom cultivation in Cameroon:The Pleurotus specie

Mushroom is a delicacy for many around the world. In Cameroon, this crop (fungi) is harvested from the wild once a year during the month of April to May. This activity mobilises many women and youths (girls and boys) who rely on it for income. Harvested mushrooms mostly the Agaricus and the termitomyces species are sold on the roadsides and more... More
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Youth, Agriculture, Food and (sustainable) Development- The ‘2016’ agenda

At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, Nidhi Nagabhatla  the Chair, YPARD-Steering Committee and an officer at United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Canada shares with us the ‘2016’ agenda where she envisions the youth, agriculture and food contributing towards sustainable development. We live in a connected world. This is as real as the internet facility in... More
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AYWAJIEUNE

<< Aywajieune >> est la première plateforme sénégalaise de mise en relation, d’annonces et de ventes de produits halieutiques (poissons et fruits de mer). Cette plateforme permet aux vendeurs et acheteurs qui rencontrent des difficultés d’écoulement et d’approvisionnement à effectuer facilement une opération de vente ou d’achat via des outils en ligne. La plateforme est née à la suite d’une étude qui... More
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The Best of YPARD's 10 year anniversary! (part 1)

As YPARD - the international network of young professionals for agricultural development - hits 10 years of achievements in 2016, YPARD members (commonly called “YPARDians”) have been celebrating their community through a series of YPARD online and onsite events, all over the world. More than ever, YPARD reaffirms itself as a network and “a family” of young people dedicated to take... More
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YPARD Nepal Team on Nutrition Workshop

Good nutrition is a critical part of health and development (WHO, 2012). But in the case of developing countries like Nepal, nutrition status of people seems to be very poor, which leads to malnutrition. Women and children are the most vulnerable group of malnutrition especially in the rural areas. Nepal Demographic and Health survey (NDHS) 2011 shows that 41% of children... More
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15 Youth Recognised for their Efforts Towards Sustainable Agricultural Development

With the increasing need for young people to be actively involved in agriculture, young professionals in agriculture gathered in Nairobi to celebrate fifteen young people who have proactively contributed to innovative and economically sustainable agricultural development.  With each passing day, there is some increasing need for young people to be involved in agriculture. More often than not, young people have the... More
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