Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition

Agricultural bloggers aged between 18-35 years from ACP (African, Caribbean, and Pacific) countries are being invited to submit their blogs to the 2nd Edition of the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloCo Awards). This competition will award prizes for recent blog posts related to agriculture. Winning blogs will receive cash prizes as well as be promoted by The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), and its partners' various channels. In addition, authors of winning blog or other best blogs will have the opportunity to be involved in future activities of CTA or its partners.

This contest is organised in the framework of the Agriculture Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society (ARDYIS) project, which aims to raise youth awareness and improve their capacity on agricultural and rural development issues in ACP countries using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The aims of this blog competition are to:

• put into limelight issues, successes, and challenges faced by youth engaged in agriculture, in urban and rural areas;
• encourage the production of information and the use of new information and communication technologies by young farmers groups and organisations interested in the youth in agriculture question;
• promote the sharing of information on the issues of agriculture and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

The blog submitted can be a newly created one, or an existing one but which has been recently updated with content related to agriculture. However, mainly blog posts from the commencement of the competition (October 2013) will be judged. In the context of the YoBloCo Awards, "new articles" or "new posts" refer to texts published between the launch of competition until its closure. Posts/articles considered for the competition must be in French or English and can be related to one or several ACP countries.

Click here for more information about the award.