Jim Cano from YPARD Philippines presents a 5-fold strategy for empowering youth and improving education to move towards agricultural development. HESA-SIANI August 2017 Philippines Workshop

1. Empowering Youth for
Transformational Leadership in
Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Jim Leandro P. Cano
Country Representative, YPARD Philippines
Teaching Associate, Agricultural Systems Institute,
College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Banos
ypard.philippines@gmail.com

2. Sustainable
Agricultural Systems
• Meeting today’s needs with
present resources
• Without sacrificing future
generations’ access to
resources for their own
development

3. Sustainable
Agricultural Systems
• Empowered youth to understand
interactions in agricultural
systems (instruction, research,
extension, production, business,
policy)
• And addressing forecasted
problems by taking an active role
in influencing key decisions of
agricultural development

4. 4

5. 0.026% 0.023 0.022 0.024 0.022

6. Youth in Numbers:
HAE
3,811,726Total Enrollment – Baccalaureate level
119,498Total Enrollment in Agri-Fisheries Programs
Source: (CHED Data for AY 2014-2015)

7. ?

8. Agricultural
Development
Academe
Research & Development
Extension and Communication
Policy/Government
5-fold Strategy
Agribusiness

9. • Strengthen graduate scholarship
with teaching load programs;
mentoring
• Instruction must be relevant and
quick to innovate (e.g. OBE, HESA,
Innovative Agriculture Systems)
• Establish publicly funded Family
Farm Schools (e.g. Dagatan FFS,
Lipa, Batangas)
Academe / Education

10. • Small grants for fresh graduates
or individuals with national
certificates
• Weightier incentives for research
with clear societal benefit and
sustainable development
• Strengthen research in
agricultural labor supply-demand
across ASEAN
Research & Development

11. • Strengthen use of ICT tools for
extension and communication (e.g.
smartphone and drone uses, and
retooling of extensionists)
• Maximize social media and internet
platforms for extension programs
• Empower youth to be extensionists
by giving them access to training
and resource materials (e.g.
Infomediary campaign of PhilRice)
Extension and Communication

12. 🌏📖Policy/Government
• Strengthen promotion of
scholarships for agriculture (e.g.
ACEF)
• Allow youth-in-agriculture
organizations to significantly
participate in crafting agri
development policies
• Create youth-in-agri development
roadmap (perhaps with DepEd,
CHED, DA, DOST, DTI, DOLE, NYC)

13. Agribusiness
• Establish regional youth agribusiness
hubs for technology/business
incubation (RFOs linking with SUCs,
with competitive small grants)
• Sustainable Agri Market Industry
Platform (e.g. real-time price watch,
crop and animal traceability system)
• Increase promotion of Urban
Agriculture and Vertical Farming in
urban centers

14. Way Forward
(Collaborative Project Ideas)
1. Long-term coordinated study
(across ASEAN) for human
resource forecasting of
agricultural labor supply-demand
2. Identify and minimize gaps in
academe-industry linkages for
agriculture sector (e.g. summit and
workshops, platform
development, curriculum
development/revisions)

15. TAKE PART.
GET INVOLVED NOW!
http://www.ypard.net
ypard.philippines@gmail.com