Welcoming YPARD Brazil New Country Representative: Heitor Dellasta Thursday, 03 November 2022 We are pleased to welcome the new YPARD Brazil Country Representative, Heitor Dellasta. Heitor Dellasta is a professional in the field of Ecological Economics. He holds a bachelor in Economy from the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he developed scientific initiation projects concerning development and env ..read more

Welcoming YPARD Sierra Leone New Country Representative: Augustine Macarthy Tuesday, 15 November 2022 By: Augustine Macarthy Augustine Macarthy is an international development professional. He holds a  Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology with a major in Human Development and Societal Transformation, from the Njala University, Sierra Leone. Additionally, he received several certificates in Management, Leadership, Agriculture, Entr ..read more

Welcoming YPARD Zimbabwe New Co-Country Representative: Patience Shawarira Wednesday, 23 November 2022 By: Patience Shawarira Patience Shawarira holds a Masters degree in Environment Education from Rhodes University in South Africa. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Media Studies from the National University of Science and Technology, in Zimbabwe. She is an experienced Research and Communications Specialist who has worked ..read more

Welcoming YPARD Morocco New Co-Country Representative: Assia Hayfa Thursday, 24 November 2022 By: Assia Hayfa A friend told me this: "What else can develop, and enrich Africa if it's not Agriculture and its Youth?" Around the crops I play, the shoes are colored by dust. This was exactly my summer childhood. I grew up in a small farming town, raised by an agricultural engineer father and a loving mother who was fascinated by plants. Unknowin ..read more

Welcoming YPARD Burundi New Co-Country Representative: Liboire Ndayishimiye Thursday, 24 November 2022 By: Liboire Ndayishimiye I am a Wildlife Specialist in Nature Conservation and Hydrology and hold a diploma in Rural Engineering, my experience in Integrated Water Resources Management; Management and Protection of Underground Waters in Burundi, in the Nile River Basin allowed me to carry out the professions of expertise in hydrologi ..read more

Plenary Aqua - Entrepreneurial Tale of a Fisheries Grad (Bangladesh) Monday, 12 December 2022 By: Nur e Kutubul Alam We have read since our childhood; we are Bengalis in fish and rice. Although many things have changed with the touch of modernity, the love for fish Bengalis has not changed. The fish market is still running in full swing. Everyone loves to eat fish, rich and poor alike. Many people in different parts of the country have ..read more

Welcoming the New YPARD Germany Country Representative: Jackson Wolf Wednesday, 01 February 2023 Written by: Jackson Wolf My name is Jackson Wolf, and I am a generalist concerned with analysing food systems from critical and interdisciplinary viewpoints. I enjoy asking questions about barriers to innovation, how societal understandings of sustainability are constructed (and by whom), and what can be done to center young and agrarian voices in ..read more

Young Scientists Group – You do not want to miss it! Monday, 06 March 2023 Written by: Dinesh Panday Last year, I attended the World Food Forum (WFF) Flagship Event at the headquarters of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy, from 17 to 21 October 2022. The global event's theme was "Healthy Diets, Healthy Planet," which aimed to raise young people's awareness on the connection betwe ..read more

Did you know that the leftover grape skins, seeds and stems from winemaking are called “pomace”? Have you ever wondered what happens to these leftovers after the grape has been squished of their juice? No? Well, the Biogas Research Team at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences in CZU Prague have surely thought about it and have launched an innovative project that puts to good use this pomace.   This project was aiming to assess the possibilities of local winemakers in terms of valorisation of their processing waste. Based on the preliminary data ..read more

Each year YPARD partakes in the annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development  “Tropentag” with an interactive workshop. See details of the previous workshops here, here and here. This year the conference is organized by the University of Hohenheim, Germany under the topic “Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future” and will take place on September 15 - 17, 2021. Due to the ongoing pandemic and resultant restrictions, Tropentag 2021 will be organised as a "hybr ..read more