A warm ‘namaste’ from a woman scientist from India. I am Dr. Seema B. Sharma, 38 years young!! With a Masters and Doctorate in Environmental Science and also the qualifying degree (UGC-NET) for a noble profession of a lecturership in any of the esteemed colleges of the country, I could have had a well settled… More YAP Proposal #385: Traditional ecological knowledge (Seema Sharma, India)
Background Pacifique is 24-year-old graduate in biotechnology from the University of Rwanda. He is a trained laboratory technician in the areas of biotechnology and molecular biology, where he also served at the National Reference Laboratory, Rwanda Biomedical Centre Division. Pacifique is a passionate young entrepreneur and he is a graduate of the Regent University Centre… More YAP proposal #384: Hydroponics: Growing into the Future (Pacifique Nshimiyimana, Rwanda)
My name is Paulina Mselem and I’m 35 years old. I come from Iringa, Tanzania. I currently work with Neema Crafts Organisation in Iringa, an organisation dedicated to helping people with disabilities. I have a disability myself but my philosophy is “disability is not inability”. I am committed to creating hope in my community. Recently… More YAP Proposal #383: Mushroom growing kits (Paulina Mselem, Tanzania)
I am called Evans Kimosop, a.k.a. the ‘Village Boy’ from Kanes Farm located at Eldoret, Kenya. I am 28 years old and was raised by a family that relied on farming to have income for paying school fees and other bills. Two years ago a group of friends and I wanted to set up a… More YAP Proposal #382: Pig farming and processing (Evans Kimosop, Kenya)
Nom : Thierry PALATA Licencié en Droit Economique et Social SEXE : M Age : 30 INTRODUCTION L’ élevage des poules pondeuses représente une opportunité intéressante de business en République Démocratique du Congo, notamment à Kinshasa. La ville de Kinshasa compte à elle seule près de 12 millions d’habitants, ce qui représente un grand marché pour les affaires. La… More YAP Proposal #381: Poules Pondeuses (Thierry Palata, Democratic Republic of Congo)
NOM : MPUTU POST NOM : BUKA PRENOM : CHICHA PAYS : REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO AGE : 31 I.INTRODUCTION L’élevage de porc est une activité génératrice de revenus. Ce projet me permettra de faire face aux activités à mener dans le cadre de la restructuration, de la réorganisation du secteur agricole au niveau local. Cependant cet objectif doit être… More YAP Proposal #380: élevage de porcs (Mputu Buka, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Projet de sensibilisation sur la gestion du wilt bacterien dans le groupement de Kalonge en territoire de Kalehe/Sud Kivu/ RDCongo. Présentation : Je m’appelle MUGISHO LUKEBA, je suis ingénieur agronome pyrotechnicien (soins des plantes). Depuis 2012 j’ai effectué des recherches sur le wilt bactérien du bananier une maladie épidémidemiologique qui détruit les bananeraies et dont la… More YAP Proposal #379: “Gestion du wilt bacterien du bananier” (Mugisho Lukeba, Democratic Republic of Congo)
My name is Msafiri Mkonda and I am a PhD student from Tanzania. Introduction Drought affects soil moisture content and nutrient flow required for crop production in most sub-Saharan African countries. More than 60% of African’s rural population is involved in agriculture but it still forms a quarter of the world’s hungry people. Tanzania… More YAP Proposal #378: Soil carbon sequestration through organic fertilizers (Msafiri Mkonda, Tanzania)
My name is Wisdom Bwanali and I am 28 years old. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Land Management (Physical Planning) which I obtained from Mzuzu University in 2014. I come from an agricultural family that is based in the border district of Mchinji, Malawi. The art of farming is one of… More YAP Proposal #377: Soya seed multiplication (Wisdom Bwanali, Malawi)
“The future of India lies in its villages.” Indeed, this statement is very true as about 70% of the massive 1.31 billion Indian population lives in villages and over 70% of rural households depend on agriculture and its allied sectors as their primary means of livelihood. Today we talk about FDI, Made in India… More YAP Proposal #376: Agricultural technology dissemination (Amandeep Singh, India)
‘24.2 per cent of Ghanaians live below the poverty line, 70 percent of them in the Northern, Upper Western and Upper East Regions… Here, six out of ten households farm on small plots of land (five acres or less) with production capacity barely at subsistence level.’ Source: https://www.wfp.org/countries/ghana. My name is Muhsin Ismail, a 27-year-old… More YAP proposal #375: Bringing More Young People into Agriculture (Muhsin Ismail, Ghana)
Hi, I am Jenson-David Dempsey Morfaw, 22-year-old Cameroonian based in the Northwest City of Bamenda. I am the Founder and CEO of Poult Vault Int. This is an innovation platform for poultry farmers, which brings together stakeholders in the sector to enhance the poultry value chain. The platform provides farmers with free up-to-date poultry production… More YAP proposal #374: An Innovation Platform for Poultry Farmers (Jenson-David Dempsey Morfaw, Cameroon)
Emmanuel Awuni is my name: a Ghanaian, 35, residing in Kenyasi in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. What to Produce My project is oyster mushroom production. The Mushroom Project is fast becoming a lucrative project that has the potential to reduce unemployment and poverty, especially in my community where mining operations have taken over… More YAP proposal #373: A Mushroom-Growing Programme (Emmanuel Awuni, Ghana)
My name is Samita Kapali, 27, from Nepal. I have recently finished my Master’s in Rural Development from Tribhuwan University. This is my thesis year. I am researching green enterprises under the fellowship of WWF Nepal Hariyo Ban student grant, which concludes in March. To assure better living standards for organic farmers and rural communities,… More YAP proposal #372: Supply Chain Management for Organic Farm Products (Samita Kapali Nepal)
I am Joel Robert, a young agripreneur from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I am 25 years old with an irresistible passion and a burning desire for feeding the planet and eradicating poverty by creating more jobs opportunities through sustainable agriculture. I am a director of procurement and logistics at Zoeland International, http://www.zoeland.co.tz, a partnership… More YAP proposal #371: Enabling Local Fresh Organic Producers to Succeed in the European Market (Joel Robert, Tanzania)
My name is Percival Ganizani Mwela, 32, Zambian and a resident of Lusaka. I am a farm manger for a company that keeps 510,000 broilers (per cycle) with a total of six cycles per year. I am also the National Broiler Chairperson for the Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ). I have a vast amount of… More YAP proposal #370: Village Chicken-Breeding and Hatchery (Percival Ganizani Mwela, Zambia)
My name is Muhammad Younis Afzal, 28. I am a PhD scholar in agricultural extension at Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Pakistan. I am from Sargodha, Punjab-Pakistan. I want to let all the stakeholders of agriculture policy know about the level of need for a national agricultural policy if we are to stay in the… More YAP proposal #369: A National Agriculture Policy for Pakistan (Muhammad Younis Afzal, Pakistan)
I am Ekta Jaju and I describe myself as a social entrepreneur. I am an environmental filmmaker from the Film and Television Institute (FTII) of India and have also completed a Goldman Sachs scholarship programme on Women Entrepreneurship from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. I was also the Asia Team Leader for Project Survival… More YAP proposal #368: Connecting Urban Consumers and Organic Farmers (Ekta Jaju, India)
I am Beatrice Peter, 28, a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in seed science and technology. I am a member of Kibwezi Hortipreneurs Youth Group (KHYG) formed under the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) youth agribusiness incubation programme in Kenya. We are hosted at the University of Nairobi Dry-land Research Station in Kibwezi.… More YAP proposal #367: Hydroponic Vegetable Production in Greenhouse (Beatrice Peter, Kenya)
Introduction Our project is about reducing malnutrition using locally available maize, cassava and soybean. According to the Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN), Nigeria is one of the first 20 countries with the highest burden of malnutrition. It is with this knowledge we have explored locally grown crops with high nutrients, which are readily available and… More YAP proposal #366: Local Snack Food from Improved Local Crops (Abisola Adedigba, Nigeria)
