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Jump-starting Agri future Days with ICT education

We all know that ICT in Agriculture is not a new thing and it has the potential to build up a better, smarter and more sustainable food production. We also know there's a lot more that can, and should be done, for improving global knowledge level about it. But for now, i will concentrate on the youth needs here. From June... More
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Who is YPARD? Understanding Our Community Identity

Never doubt the power of the right question asked at the right moment. “Who is YPARD Kenya?” asked Monica Kapiriri, a trainer with the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). The question put a pause on the conversation immediately. Here we were, the mentors and mentees, gathered in Naivasha, Kenya as part of the closing workshop of YPARD’s face-to-face... More
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Celebrating the ten years of YPARD: A chronicle of the times to come

At the occasion of YPARD 10 years, GFAR Foresight Advisor Robin Bourgeois projects the plausible futures of YPARD as a movement as well as young people involvement in agriculture in the next ten years. I am finally back in 2016 after having had the privilege of traveling in four different plausible futures, where I met outstanding YPARD members yesterday, the 3... More
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The Chicken Guide to Poverty Alleviation

Today the world is rapidly growing but deep insights tell us that the real riches are not growing at all.A common man who works the whole day and earns just a mere satiable income is standing at the same place where he was standing some few years ago. The more deprived are the poor people, who although have a roof over... More
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Social Media and Its Role in Empowering the Youth to Feed Africa

How does it feel to have a room where like minded African young people come together for a discussion and debate full experiential learning from one another?  Imagine for a moment when you have a world where professionals of your ages from a multiple backgrounds come together to question, answer or share their experiences on a given weekly theme? If that... More
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The Potential of ICT for Agriculture in Bangladesh

Many people in Bangladesh believe that ICT in Agriculture is like an infantile while others think differently. The world is becoming a global tech village and we need to think about its use in agriculture. Bangladesh agriculture is a very important contributor in the country's GDP  with the figures from the Ministry of Agriculture showing its total contribution in 2015 was... More
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Calling for interns in “Web4Knowledge”

The Young Professionals for Agricultural Development’s network (YPARD) is looking for three – 3 - interns – an English speaker, a Francophone and a Spanish speaker - to join the YPARD’s Global Communications team and expand its information services and communications.  WANTED! Do you have a background in agricultural related fields, natural resource management, ICT4D or similar fields?Are you passionate about and... More
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The Power of Networking Among Youths

What drives young people to join networks? How does membership of a network strengthen one’s position in society?  As a member of several networks such as YPARD, Prolinnova (Promoting local innovation) and Youth Food movement, these are some of the questions I ask myself at times. Generally, when people talk about networks, they talk about creating a sense of belonging, building... More
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YPARD and Me: A Fairy Tale and a Timeline

Machteld Schoolenberg was the first YPARD Web4Knowledge intern in 2011. Since then, her involvement with YPARD activities has incredibly evolved. At the occasion of YPARD 10 years celebrations, Machteld's story is a powerful means to show why and how much YPARD's work is relevant to its community of young professionals in agricultural development. It’s ten years of YPARD, but for me,... More
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Online Discussion : Youth feeding the future

Rural youth are the future of food security and rural poverty reduction. They are also the present as there are more young people today than ever before – 1.8 billion between the ages of 10 and 24 – most of them living in less developed countries and in rural areas. However, youth in rural areas of developing countries face enormous challenges... More
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Agrindus: Erasing Assumptions and Lifting Potential

Back in 2015 As an undergraduate, my practical involvement in agriculture has taught me that agricultural practice goes beyond the four walls of the classroom.  Combining both the practical experience and theoretical learning is essential to conceive practical ways to support agriculture. Let me introduce you to my initiative, called AgrindusNetwork, started in 2015. It is a paradigm shift from the... More
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Welcoming YPARD Europe Coordinator: Libuška Valešová

We are delighted to welcome our YPARD Europe Coordinator: Libuška Valešová Libuška is a member of the Department of Economics and Development at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences (CULS) which is just days short of becoming a hosting institution for the YPARD Europe. The  CULS’s Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences (FTA) partners closely with numerous key... More
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YPARD Pakistan 10years Celebration of Youth Empowerment in Agriculture

A few weeks back a program was organized in four major cities of Pakistan namely Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad. The program was meant to celebrate the 10 years of success for YPARD which proved to be highly inspirational amongst the youth. Few years back, an instructor approached me via social media inviting me to participate as an aspirant in an... More
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Youth in Agricultural Technology Dissemination.

WeFarm Youth Ambassadors after training. On December 4th 2015 in the presence of family, friends and  faculty members, the then Vice Chancellor of Egerton University, Prof James Tuitoek, gave me powers to read and do all that pertains to my degree. On that day, my course mates and I were conferred a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture. It was an auspicious day... More
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7 Things You Need to Know When Delivering a Social Media Training

Social media is no longer a new tool for everyone to get connected across the globe. As of 2015, there are over 2.206 billion users, which is 30% of the world’s population. It has become clear that social media really is the future of global marketing. For nonprofits, social media can be an effective tool to tell stories of what the... More
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“The City You Need, the World they want”-UN Habitat III conference insights!

Urban youth face unprecedented challenges, from climate change to unemployment to multiple forms of inequalities and exclusion, particularly for youth belonging to vulnerable or marginalized groups. To provide an open space for critical exchange between urban researchers, professionals and decision makers who believe that urbanization is an opportunity and can lead to positive urban transformations, the UN Habitat III organized a... More
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Halfway on the GCARD3 Youth journey

In one month, the GCARD3 Global event will be kicking off. GCARD3 is not a mere event, it is a process. While the preparation of the global event involves shaping up the program and the delegations, the communications coverage, logistics and tutti quanti, collective agricultural development directions are already discussed throughout national and regional consultations, ahead of the global event. At... More
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A Curious Case of Learning From Mistakes

When I started out my mentorship journey, I had high expectations of what it would entail and how it would impact my endeavors in the ICT4 agriculture. But, liittle did I know that they would be exceeded! Being a business and ICT guy, no one would have thought I would be remotely interested in farming, and thanks to YPARD, the opportunity... More
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Our participation at the CGIAR consultations in DRC - #GCARD3

By Hervé Bondonga and Arsène Birindwa As members of YPARD, we were invited to take part in national consultations on integrating CGIAR sites on 19 February in Kinshasa organized by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), an active CGIAR center in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Participants were from the government: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, the Ministry of... More
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Green Farming Boots; Keeping your boots dirty the YPARD Kosovo way

If you are young and in the agricultural sector, and more especially if you have dedicated several years of your life to study agriculture, every so often you will be asked by curious people the reason behind your career choice. Ever since I decided to study agriculture, I have been asked hundreds of times why agriculture? You could do better? But... More
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