WorldVeg Annual Report 2023 !
Welcome to our 2023 annual report, truly a bumper edition as befits our 50th anniversary. The year was full of events and reflections with our partners around the world, and that gave us all phenomenal momentum. We present our revised priorities for research and action, progress made with upgrading our genebank in Tanzania and others across Africa, amongst much else. There are encouraging results across the board, updates from our seed consortiums in Asia and Africa, and introductions to new projects as well as updates and stories from our three large projects in Africa – the Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative, Veggies for Planet & People, and SafeVeg. Very good progress is reported in all of these, that focus on simultaneously tackling demand and supply dimensions in the vegetable sector. There is an overview of our work on urban food systems, with WorldVeg leading or being involved in initiatives in 30 cities, followed by numbers and news from the regions that share what farmers and other value chain actors have experienced, from Benin, Cambodia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Sudan, Tanzania – all over the world… And we end as always with an overview of our publications, alongside our staff diversity, communications statistics, finances, and of course, acknowledgement of the continuing support from our board of directors and many funders. We hope that you will enjoy this special Golden Jubilee year edition. Together, we have done so much over the past 50 years. And together, we will surely achieve so much more in the years to come.
WORLDVEG IN THE NEWS
[Video] Da Ai Journal: Doomsday Ark (English/Mandarin)
Da Ai Televetion｜Taiwan, January 2024
[Video] OUR ISLAND: Seed exchange and conservation (English/Mandarin)
PTS, February 2023
[Video] Seed conservation and Breeding-2 (English/Mandarin)
Formosa TV, February 2023
[Video] Seed conservation and Breeding-1 (English/Mandarin)
Formosa TV, February 2023
New partnership agreement signed to improve global nutrition and food security ACIAR, February 2023
AFACI Newsletter Issue No. 22.
AFACI Newsletter, January – December 2022
[Video] PROJET NUTRIFOOD: Dr. Marco WOPEREIS visite le jardin scolaire de Goulo-Sodji à Zè (French)
AgricoTV, April 2022
Low-Cost Solar Dryers Yield Sustainable Incomes to Marginal Farmers of Koraput District in Odisha.
ICRISAT Happenings Newsletter, April 2022
Audience au Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage et de la Pêche du Benin: World Vegetable Center porte le projet d’un symposium (French).
Benin ODD TV, April 2022
Team of scientists from Taiwan visits Nagaon
The Sentinel, April 2022
Interview with Edmond Totin, WorldVeg Project Manager for SAFEVEG on Climate Change in Africa (French)
UN News, April 2022
Why Seedbank Aren’t Just for Doomsday
BBC Future, April 2022
The scientists helping farmers kick the chemical habit
AFP, March 2022 – Published in France24, RFI, MSN, Global Times and others
Sharing Knowledge for Self-Sufficiency – International Aid in Fruit and Vegetable Production
Taiwan Panorama, February 2022
Pressing for policies that promote “forgotten foods”
Grow Further, 9 December 2021
Cherry tomatoes
KU Research Weekly, 2 December 2021
The fight of mushrooms in farmland. Biotechnology at the service of humanity
Spark Chronicles, 29 November 2021
Asia and Pacific Seed Association (APSA) recognizes 2021’s five ‘most influential’ seed scientists in Asia-Pacific
Seed Quest, 19 November 2021
Un plan mundial para conservar la diversidad de frutas y hortalizas
A en verde, 10 November 2021
European donor delegation discusses partnerships for greater impact delivery in Malian agriculture
ICRISAT Happenings, 15 October 2021
