Growing and cooking vegetables with VINESA!
Join the students at Emmanuel Primary School in Tanzania on a tasty journey to add diversity and nutrition to their diets with vegetables.
What constitutes healthy eating?
A little knowledge about basic nutrition and a few new vegetable recipes can make all the difference in a family's diet.Â
Getting the right message about nutrition
WorldVeg is testing new approaches to deliver nutrition information to smallholder farmers through seed companies, NGOs, and government extension. -MORE-
Colors to honor the King
The World Vegetable Center, in collaboration with the Tropical Vegetable Research Center at Kasetsart University, will provide 250 seed kits and books to local farmers in remembrance of the late H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The kits will contribute towards his majesty's "New Theory in Agriculture" by providing high-quality vegetable seeds to create self-reliant farmers. Each kit contains 9 species of 7 different colors (with 7 unique nutrient profiles) to produce a beautiful, health-promoting garden, as well as a book on how to save the seed of each species.
Impact and cost-effectiveness of women’s training in home gardening and nutrition in Bangladesh
This study quantifies the impact and cost-effectiveness of training poor rural women in Bangladesh in home gardening and nutrition. We find that the intervention significantly (p < 0.01) increased vegetable production (+16.5 g/person/day), vegetable consumption and the micronutrient supply from the garden.
Varietal and harvesting stage variation in nutritional content of bitter gourd
A total of 17 diverse bitter gourd entries of various commercial market types were evaluated for fruit traits and phytonutrient contents for 2 years. Significant differences among the entries were detected for total carotenoids, total tocopherols, dry matter and fruit traits.
The effect of women’s home gardens on vegetable production and consumption in Bangladesh
Women’s home gardens are an effective intervention in Bangladesh for increasing the supply and consumption of a diverse range of vegetables in poor rural households, thereby contributing to nutrition security.
Impact of nutritional perceptions of traditional African vegetables on farm household production decisions: A case study of smallholders in Tanzania
Smallholders tend to grow more traditional vegetables than larger-farm operators. Thus, more attention should be given to reducing production and its associated transaction costs by ensuring timely access to quality certified seeds, ensuring optimal use of inputs and increasing labour productivity, particularly for smallholders.
Project Profile: NutriSenseProm
NUTRITION-SENSITIVE PROMOTION OF VEGETABLES
NutriSenseProm: Increasing vegetable consumption through public and private partnerships via efficient delivery […]
Project Profile: Home Garden Scaling, Cambodia
This Feed the Future project aims to develop appropriate vegetable seed kits along with participatory training systems for production of nutritious vegetables in home gardens.