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Our Featured Projects

Veggies 4 Planet & People (V4P&P)

Engaging women and youth in vegetable production and distribution networks to close the ‘vegetable gap’ and improve livelihoods and nutrition in Ethiopia and Kenya.

SAFEVEG

Sustainable and climate-smart agricultural and post-harvest practices to increase vegetable consumption in urban and peri-urban areas of West Africa.

Taiwan- Africa Vegetable Initiative (TAVI)

Conserve and use African vegetable biodiversity to address malnutrition by increasing the production and consumption of nutritious vegetables.

WorldVeg’s impact is global 

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The World’s Largest Public Vegetable Genebank

The World Vegetable Center genebank maintains a large collection of public domain germplasm for the current and future use of all humankind. We distribute seed samples of our germplasm accessions and advanced breeding lines worldwide.

With 65,152 accessions encompassing germplasm of 133 genera and 330 species from 155 countries, the World Vegetable Center genebank includes globally important vegetables such as tomato, onion, peppers and cabbage as well as more than 10,000 accessions of traditional vegetables.

Each year the Center distributes about 10,000 seed samples to researchers across the globe. Over the past four decades this has led to the release of hundreds of new vegetable varieties with particular impact in developing countries.

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WorldVeg’s Global Presence and Impact

Center researchers lead and participate in projects throughout Asia and Africa. We have about 400 staff engaged in this spread of activities, and seek to partner with governments, nongovernmental organizations, universities, research institutes, and the private sector to promote prosperity for the poor and health for all.

Africa

From Fashion to Fruit Juice

From fashion to fruit juice  - Photo: Lisa Hilgers The story of Colette Yèhouénou, entrepreneur from Benin supported by WorldVeg Colette walks through the tall grass, slowly approaching the green and white painted building in [...]

Taking Root – A Scaling Journey

Taking root - a scaling journey Story by Mwasilwa Ambali, integrated expert at the World Vegetable Center (WordVeg) in Benin A fresh start In late 2020, as COVID restrictions began to ease, I found [...]

WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa:  📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office –  📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) –  📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)

Asia

WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia:  📍 Headquarters in Taiwan –  📍 South & Central Asia Office –  📍 East & Southeast Asia Office

Latin America / Caribbean

WorldVeg Nutrition

All About the Good Stuff in Vegetables

Find nutrition information and learn and educate about vegetables with our extensive nutrition tools.

  • Phytonutrient Data
  • Interactive Learning Center
  • Recipes and Resources
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Growth Habit

Perspectives to expand your view of vegetables

Adding more greens to Africa’s Green Revolution

The vegetable seed sector in sub-Saharan Africa has received little attention in the development agenda. World Vegetable Center scientists teamed up with experts and managers of leading vegetable seed companies in Asia and Africa to define a way forward.

MY SUCCESS

RECENT RESEARCH

Schreinemachers, P.; Lin, M. 2022. Use of World Vegetable Center breeding lines among seed companies in Asia in 2021. World Vegetable Center, online.

Anitha, S.; Afari-Sefa, V.; Kalumikiza, Z.; Mhango, K.; Mosha, I.; Muzanila, Y.; Mwangwela, A.; Ochieng, J.; Okori, P.; Tsusaka, T. 2022. Improved household nutrition through home-grown produce and consumption of nutritious and healthy products. In: Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. / ed. by Bekunda, M.; Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.; Odhong, J.; Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 119-133.

Ayenan, M.A.T.; Danquah, A.; Hanson, P.; Asante, I.K.; Danquah, E.Y. 2022. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotypes respond differently to long-term dry and humid heat stress. HORTICULTURAE. 8(2):118.

Depenbusch, L.; Schreinemachers, P.; Brown, S.; Roothaert, R. 2022. Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia. FOOD SECURITY. online.

Fischer, G. 2022. Weaving gender into sustainable intensification interventions. In: Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. / ed. by Bekunda, M.; Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.; Odhong, J. ; Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 1-12.

Kirana, R.; Hermanto, C.; Reflinur; Barchenger, D.W. 2022. Performance of introduced lines based on morphological markers for diversity enrichment of Indonesian chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) varieties. AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. 2462(1): 020036.

Melomey, L.D.; Ayenan, M.A.T.; Marechera, G.; Abu, P.; Danquah, A.; Tarus, D.; Danquah, E.Y. 2022. Pre-and post-harvest practices and varietal preferences of tomato in Ghana. SUSTAINABILITY. 14(3):1436.

Rubiales, D.; Khazaei, H. 2022. Advances in disease and pest resistance in faba bean. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. online.

Sáez, C.; Flores-León, A.; Montero-Pau, J.; Sifres, A.; Dhillon, N.P.S.; López, C.; Picó, B. 2022. RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis provides candidate genes for resistance to tomato leaf curl New Delhi Virus in melon. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 12:798858.

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WorldVeg’s Donors

Support for World Vegetable Center activities is provided by project donors and the following long-term strategic donors.

Thanks to UK aid from the UK government, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the governments of Taiwan, Germany, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan.