CURRENT PROJECTS
A Sustainable Agrifood Systems Approach for Sudan (SASAS): Vegetables for Income, Nutrition and Employment in Sudan (VINES), 2022-2024
A Sustainable Agrifood Systems Approach for Sudan (SASAS) A Sustainable Agrifood Systems Approach for Sudan (SASAS): Vegetables for Income, Nutrition and Employment in Sudan (VINES), 2022-2024 Funder: USAID Project lead: CIMMYT Duration: 1 November 2022 - 30 September 2024 Project location: Sudan Partners: Practical Action, Mercy-Corps, [...]
Onion Value Chain Improvements in Odisha State-Phase 2
Onion Value Chain Onion Value Chain Improvements in Odisha State-Phase 2  Funder: Government of Odisha, India Duration: 30 January 2023 – 29 January 2025 Project location: Odisha State, IndiaProject partners: Directorate of Horticulture, Odisha, Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Empowerment, Government of India Project manager: [...]
ACIAR PIC more Veg
ACIAR PIC more Veg Driving vegetable food environments to promote healthy diets in Pacific Island Countries Funder: Australian Centre for International Research (ACIAR) Duration: 7 April 2023 – 19 March 2025 Project location: FijiProject partners: Dikoda (Dikoda.com), Consumer Council of Fiji (CCOF) (consumersfiji.org) Project manager: [...]
OneCGIAR Resilient Cities
OneCGIAR Resilient Cities Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-urban Agrifood Systems Donor: OneCGIAR Project lead: IITA Duration: 1 April 2022 – 31 December 2025 Project Location: Bangladesh, Philippines (focus of the work), Kenya and Ethiopia Project manager: Pepijn Schreinemachers Background By 2050, more than two in three people on the planet will live [...]
AIDI Zanzibar
AIDI Zanzibar Accelerate Innovation Delivery Initiative – A Rapid Agriculture and Food Security Response Funder: USAID Project leads: IFDC, CIMMYT Partners: Zanzibar Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI), Milele Foundation, Practical Permaculture Institute of Zanzibar (PPIZ) Duration: 1 January 2023 - 30 September 2024Project location: TanzaniaProject [...]
COA Cambodia – Scaling
Cambodia – Scaling Strengthening safe and off-season vegetable production in Cambodia-Scaling Funder: Ministry of Agriculture, TaiwanDuration: 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2024Project location: CambodiaProject partner: General Directorate of Agriculture, CambodiaTaiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research InstituteProject manager: Srinivasan RamasamyBackground Vegetable production in Cambodia only [...]
WFP Mali Resilience
WFP Mali Resilience A contribution of the World Vegetable Center to the Action Plan for Building Resilience 2020-2024 of the World Food Program Mali Funder: World Food ProgrammeDuration: 21 September 2022 - 30 April 2024 Project location: Mali Project manager: John Nzungize BackgroundSmallholder farmers and [...]
Better Bitter Gourd
Better Bitter Gourd Growing new markets with better bitter gourd genetics: WorldVeg's monoecious, gynoecious and predominantly female lines of different market segments developed through recurrent selection to breed breakthrough hybirds Start date: 1 February 2023End date: 31 January 2025Project manager: Narinder Dhillon Jointly funded by [...]
TAsVI – Taiwan – Southeast Asia Vegetable Germplasm Initiative
TAsVI - Taiwan – Southeast Asia Vegetable Germplasm Initiative Seed Home-coming Start date: 1 September 2022 End date: 31 December 2024 The TAsVI project aims to strengthen international collaboration to rescue and safeguard vegetable biodiversity in Asia for climate resilient and healthy food systems. [...]
Evaluation of genetic resources for the development of pepper Phytophthora blight-resistant varieties and selection of eco-friendly disease control materials
 Increasing understanding of resistance genes in different locations.Â
AGROVEG Project
AGROVEG aim to Intensify Agroecological-Based Cropping Systems to Enhance Food Security, Environmental Safety, and Income of Smallholder Producers of Crucifers and Traditional African Vegetables in East Africa.
JOHAR
Jharkhand Opportunities for Harnessing Rural Growth Project (JOHAR) is a World Bank Funded and dedicated livelihood intensive project being implemented in Jharkhand by the Jharkhand State.
Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH)
WorldVeg, Taiwan Council of Agriculture (COA) and partners are joining efforts to improve the multi-resistance of Solanaceae crops to address the damage caused by abiotic and biotic stresses.
Improving Multi-Resistance of Solanaceae Crops to Stresses in Taiwan
WorldVeg, Taiwan Council of Agriculture (COA) and partners are joining efforts to improve the multi-resistance of Solanaceae crops to address the damage caused by abiotic and biotic stresses.
Chili Pepper Conservation Strategy
Developing a global conservation strategy for Capsicum crops and their wild relatives.
Heat stress tolerance of tomato & pepper
Screening of tomato and pepper in field trials in different locations around the world to find heat-tolerant material.
ASEAN – JAIF Tuta absoluta
Strengthen capacity of mainland Southeast Asia to deal with invasive insect pest Tuta absoluta.Â
MOST – MAGIC tomato
Investigation of genomic architecture of reproductive traits under heat stress via a tomato MAGIC population.
ADB Food Safety Project
A food safety study in horticulture value chains
HARNESSTOM
Broad and durable begomovirus-resistant tomato varieties through identification of Ty gene combinations targeting aggressive begomoviruses in the Mediterranean Basin, India, and Southeast Asia.
Promoting vegetable diversity for more resilient livelihoods and healthier diets in Latin America and the Caribbean region
Conserve, multiply and distribute vegetable germplasm to improve the livelihoods of resource-poor populations in the region.
Greener Greens
Better evidence for agroecological-approaches to vegetable production supporting smallholder incomes and food security in Kenya.
BMZ – Choose, Grow, Thrive
African vegetables, currently underutilized, are an affordable source of nutrients to diversify diets.
NUTRIFOOD: Addressing the double burden of malnutrition in Benin Â
School gardens are the gateway to produce and promote nutrient-rich foods to students, parents, and the community.
SAFEVEG: Local production of safe vegetables for West African consumers
Sustainable and climate-smart agricultural and post-harvest practices to increase vegetable consumption in urban and peri-urban areas.