About YARA
The Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network brings together young and early career African researchers in agriculture from all over the Continent in a new peer network.
Membership Application
The Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) network brings together young and early career African researchers in agriculture from all over the Continent in a new peer network.
Small Grants Programme
YARA Small Grants Programme 2019
YARA Working Paper Series
The Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA) in collaboration with the Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape bring you the YARA Working Paper Series. Read the papers here.
Latest Events
International Youth Day 2021, “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”, comes to show how the food systems transformations will require inclusion of youth. At the same time, youth will be catalysts for ensuring a sustainable transformation. Read more
YARA-JPS-COHD-FAC 2019 Summer Writeshop-Workshop
The YARA-JPS-COHD-FAC Writeshop-Workshop aims to improve young researchers’ strategic knowledge about and practical skills on matters related to international journal publication and impact…Read More
YARA Theory Workshop
YARA in collaboration with the Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape organize a theory workshop for young African scholars from across the continent… Read More
News Highlights
Agricultural transitions: commodification, social differentiation and value chains
Agricultural transitions are concerned with the modernisation of agriculture and the relations between production, accumulation and policies. Read More
Agro-food regimes in contemporary capitalism and food sovereignty as an alternative
To understand contemporary transformations in African agriculture, one needs to locate these both historically and globally. Read More
Property Rights and the Agrarian Question in Africa
Property rights are foundational in different forms of society and in different modes of production. They define who has what powers over what kind of resources, for what purposes. Read More
The Political Economy of the Agrarian Question
The political economy of the Agrarian Question (AQ) cannot be understood outside the political economy of the world capitalist system (and its imperialist manifestation) as it has developed historically and impacted on Africa over the last five centuries. Read More
