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Developing the knowledge, skills, and talent of youth to further food security and nutritionIn order to face the food security and nutrition challenges of the future – including feeding the estimated 9 billion people by 2050 with adequate, safe, diversified, and nutrient rich food - there is a need to build the capacity of the next generation of agricultural producers, by identifying ways to engage and empower youth – both women and men.
"To bring young people with lots of energy to the table to try and discuss pressing and complex issues was just a fantastic opportunity”. Ashwin Ravikumar, young researcher at CIFOR, during 2014 Global Landscapes Forum youth session.
YPARD members are also developing a pilot course on “farming as a business” which we hope to launch by late 2015. Check our website for updates
On September 25th 2015, world leaders will commit to The Global Goals (http://www.globalgoals.org) for sustainable development including ending extreme poverty and fighting inequality. Malawi’s young farmers sing out loud (http://www.apo.af/XtByFw) to show farming can be one way to do this. Their song Kondwa was inspired by the song ‘Happy’ (http://www.apo.af/IaitTZ) by Pharrell Williams.
This webinar will be hosted by YEPP IRC and YouthBank InternationalOver the last 5 years YEPP Community Network and YouthBank International network members have seen a dramatic shift in how alternative forms of funding have been secured.
As an agricultural engineer with an environmentalist mind, I always try to understand what is actually going on under my feet. Of particular interst, in agriculture it does matter to know how many other species of insects are dying after pesticide applications or how many microorganisms are being disturbed when the soil is tilled. Not knowing about those consequences or not assessing them carefully have made us silence the spring in past and probably having our pollinators lost nowadays.
Looking forward to have you with us, for a youth session WITH young, fresh blood and perspectives!
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