Africa has the youngest population in the world with over 92% of the youth represented among the extremely poor (ILO, 2015a). The youth population is expected to grow at an exponentially high rate, thus bringing forth the need to create between ten to twelve million new jobs in Africa per year until 2035 to absorb the new labour market entrants (UN,... Continue reading

From childhood, I have been hearing of policies across sectors of the economy but I found myself having  a special interest  in agriculture. Keeping abreast with the latest happenings in the agricultural sector is extremely difficult and often time not possible because of challenges with internet. I was born and raised on a farm: precisely, an agrarian community where almost everybody... Continue reading

“Agriculture has an image problem,” acknowledged the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD), a youth network that aims to connect young people by offering a conduit to share information and get excited about agriculture. Along with other agricultural youth networks throughout the world, YPARD is working to give agriculture a facelift, in order to pierce through the persistent perception that agriculture is “an outdated field... Continue reading

Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) in support of Clean Energy Nepal, Plan Nepal, UNICEF, World Vision and Save the Children organized the 4th National Youth Climate Summit "National Youth Conference on Climate Change" as a side event of the 8th Conference on Community Based Adaption to Climate Change (CBA-8)  between 27-29 April, 2014.  The conference was organized in Kathmandu, Nepal, with the objective of broaching up the hottest issues of recent... Continue reading