urban farming

- Call for participation
WUR Urban Greenhouse Challenge
Open until30 May 2020
Peri-urban agriculture: a threat or an opportunity?
08 Mar 2019by Hervé Bondonga
Nagarkrishi: Social entrepreneur initiative for better urban food and health
09 Sep 2018by Abu Yousuf Shihab
Urban food security and consumption
16 Aug 2018by Abu Yousuf Shihab
Growing vegetables in a tyre
14 Sep 2017by Henrietta Bolanle Ojuri
International conference for youth in agriculture ICYA 2017
26 Apr 2017 to 29 May 2017in Leuven city
Of Humans and Plants: How gardening can connect city residents and help to build up a local community
08 Jul 2013by Johanna Madeleine Gysin

Youth success stories

From the Czech Republic to Asia, Africa and beyond my agricultural story so far!

Introducing Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies, leader of the Biogas Research Team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), an agriculture enthusiast with a passion for his work and the second-youngest member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy platform of the Czech Republic.

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

5 years of YPARD: a life-changing journey

"Being a YPARD representative gave me so many empowering opportunities, but also a chance to empower others" Testimonial by Ivana Radic Jean highlighting her experience and journey in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Serbia community since February 2013.

YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!

In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.

Good-bye from YPARD Nepal: Creating a space for young leaders

This testimonial by Dinesh Panday highlights his experience in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Nepal community since 2012. He is currently a doctoral graduate research assistant (2016-2019) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former YPARD Nepal country representative.

A season of innovation

The climate-smart irrigation system was designed with the aim of addressing these challenges; by collecting rainwater, transferring it below the soil surface and using it during the time of low rainfall thus making water available and accessible for perennial plants all year round.

Climate resilient agriculture and producer-consumer justice through ICT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 was created to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to ensure climate resilient agriculture and ICT based business promotional interventions from producer to consumer level. Youth, therefore, can play a supporting role to increase awareness and promote the agenda of SDG for agricultural sustainability to make sure others are aware of it.

From nowhere to somewhere; YPARD made a way

Marc Ghislain tells about all the changing scenes in his life as a young professional in agriculture: the anxiety in choosing a profession in agriculture and how his engagement with YPARD helped him find his feet in the agricultural sector.

A non-traditional career path

I strongly support and believe in an inclusive and equitable quality education together with lifelong learning opportunities for all. It is very important that we start to facilitate more flexible career paths in science if we want to encourage diversity and creativity. Being a lifelong learner is a value of sustainable self-development. It opens the door to life-changing, rewarding, fulfilling and continuous growth.

Easier said than done: Gender equality and women empowerment

The role of young people in helping shift gender perceptions is paramount. We can no longer employ tradition and culture as excuses for allowing basic inequalities between genders to occur and to keep perpetuating themselves. We need to acknowledge and cherish culture, but also acknowledge that culture is not a static entity and that it can, and must, evolve towards a more equal society.

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urban farming

WUR Urban Greenhouse Challenge

Peri-urban agriculture: a threat or an opportunity?

Nagarkrishi: Social entrepreneur initiative for better urban food and health

Urban food security and consumption

Growing vegetables in a tyre

International conference for youth in agriculture ICYA 2017

Of Humans and Plants: How gardening can connect city residents and help to build up a local community

ICSD 2021 : 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 8 - 9 September Rome, Italy

XV World Forestry Congress

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva & Ian Goldin in conversation: "Roadmap to the Sustainable Development Goals"

Consultant - Resilience Design Facilitator’s Guide Developer for SCALE (remote)

Kyoto World Water Grand Prize 2022

Become a 4R champion

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