Getting Involved with YPARD

YPARD, the Young Professional’s Platform for Agricultural Research for Development, has a mission to serve as a global platform through which young professionals (under 40) can express their ideas and realize their full potential towards dynamic agricultural research for development. YPARD is a movement of young professionals. It creates spaces for deliberation and interaction. At the heart of YPARD as a movement are its members, who are encouraged to become active in their area, spread the news about YPARD to other young professionals, encourage a stronger voice of youth in their own organizations and share their views and ideas with other young professionals in the network.

In order to realize its vision, YPARD has the following strategic objectives,

• To facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among young professionals across disciplines, professions, age and regions.
• To broaden opportunities for young professionals to contribute to strategic ARD policy debates.
• To promote agriculture among young people.
• To facilitate access to resource and capacity building opportunities.

We connect people, disseminate information about funding, jobs, events and other news “featured” for young professionals; we organize on-line events: series of blogs, e-discussions, capacity building opportunities on local level; we try integrate the youth in political debates, give a voice to the youth at key events and try sponsor some YPARD members to attend these events. We also work on promoting agriculture.

To keep in touch with us and participate to our activities, please do sign up on the platform: http://ypard.net/accounts/register/