A YPARD Delegation of young professionals from the southern and northern mediterranean region was invited by the GFAR to participate to the 4th Mediterranean Congress 2015: Rural Communities, No Longer Left Behind, in Milan, co-organized by the Fondation du Dialogue Sud-Nord Méditerranée. 17 young…
We are pleased to bring you the latest Asian Farmers' Association E-Bulletin with summaries and links to three issue papers on Attracting the Youth to Agriculture, Promoting the Rights and Livelihoods of Forest and Farm Producers in Asia, and Promoting Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance…
YPARD monthly newsletter for September is now online! In this issue, learn about how YPARD is taking forward the Youth and Agriculture Development Agenda; working with a new initiative to get young people’s views on the new SDGs; one young social reporter’s take on her participation in the recent…
GFAR believes that special attention must be given to encouraging young people into careers in all aspects of AR4D. It is important that young people themselves help express what changes are needed in agricultural education and incentives to make careers more attractive and valued and better…
It’s been almost a year since Madan Poudel, former YPARD Web4Knowledge intern took part in TOCs 2014.
Thanks to two CGIAR sponsored slots for YPARD members and GFAR’s travel support, Madan had the opportunity to attend this workshop of ‘technical geeks’, which provided him with “a…
YPARD monthly newsletter for July is now online! In this issue, learn everything about YPARD key achievements in 2014 with YPARD’s freshly released 2014 annual report.
Find out more about YPARD Mentoring program officially launched from 4-6 June in Nairobi, Kenya and meet the ‘YP of the…
The Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences (GCHERA) co-organized from 15-17 June, 2015 in Zaragoza, Spain the conference "Agricultural Higher Education in the 21st Century" in which Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD)…
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The average age for farmers around the world is around 58. What can be done to bring more young people into policy discussions around agriculture? Farming First TV spoke to Courtney Paisley, Director of the Young People for Agricultural Development network (YPARD) about just that.
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