Four new flyers show WorldVeg project impacts, by numbers
As work on four of the largest projects managed by WorldVeg advances, they are reporting significant successes. These are often captured in long reports, short reports, and individual examples and stories as news items or blogs – some of which have appeared in this Fresh! Newsletter over the years, or can be found on worldveg.org and partner websites.
But for the first time for these projects, the impacts are presented in clear numbers, each on a single page, that allow readers to see, quickly, and make their own assessment of the impacts that have been made.
Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative
TAVI is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan. It is implemented by the World Vegetable Center, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Education and Training, Eswatini; the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin; the National Plant Genetic Resources Centre, Tanzania; and the National Center for Applied Research on Rural Development (FOFIFA) and University of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
SafeVeg
This research is carried out with funding from the European Union and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands through the project “Safe locally produced vegetables for West Africa’s consumers (SAFE VEG)” – ID-4000003936, part of the DeSIRA program and implemented by the World Vegetable Center, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement CIRAD and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), and national partners, the Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Bénin (INRAB, Benin), Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA, Burkina Faso), and Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER, Mali).
Veggies 4 Planet & People
The V4P&P project is implemented by the World Vegetable Center and SNV Netherlands Development Organization, with partners including CABI, Shujaaz, ODI, the governments of Kenya and Ethiopia, NGOs, business mentors, seed companies, and local policy makers. The project thanks IKEA Foundation for its generous financial support, with co-funding from Biovision Foundation for the Greener Greens project.
Taiwan Asia Vegetable Initiative
TAsVI is funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is implemented by the World Vegetable Center, in partnership with the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) National Plant Genetic Resources Center; Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development Institute (MARDI) Horticulture Research Centre; University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Institute of Plant Breeding, and Bureau of Plant Industries (BPI), the Philippines; Kasetsart Univerity Tropical Vegetable Research Center (TVRC), and Department of Agriculture Horticulture Research Institute national genebank, Thailand; and Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute (FAVRI), and Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS) Plant Resource Center (PRC), Vietnam.
