- 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…
- 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)…
- By Helen Briggs BBC Environment correspondent Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests. Fields around organic farms have more types of wild plants, providing benefits for…
- 4ème journée d'étude régionale préparatoire au Congrès de Milan, Rabat (Maroc), 20 et 21 Avril 2015. Par Rabii MRAIDI, YPARD membre La Fondation du Dialogue Sud-nord Méditerranée (Louvain-la-Neuve), l’Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire (IAV) Hassan II (Rabat), le GFAR (…
- Agriculture is a sector that is highly vulnerable to climate change. We need to think in terms of how this impacts livelihoods and what this means to our global food systems. Evidence suggests that in the next 40 years meeting our demands for food will change drastically so the time…
- The OECD will convene the 2015 edition of its Global Forum on Development in Paris on 1 April 2015 with the theme “Post-2015 Financing for Sustainable Development”. In mid-2015 all eyes will be focused on the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), taking place in…