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, India Project partners: Directorate of Horticulture, Odisha, Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Empowerment, Government of India Project [...]

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: Fiji Project partners: Dikoda (Dikoda.com), Consumer Council of Fiji (CCOF) (consumersfiji.org) [...]

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 Asia Vegetable Initiative

TAsVI - Taiwan Asia Vegetable 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. The project will [...]

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 project funded by the World Bank - peas demo plot

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.

MOST – MAGIC tomato

Investigation of genomic architecture of reproductive traits under heat stress via a tomato MAGIC population.

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.

Greener Greens

Better evidence for agroecological-approaches to vegetable production supporting smallholder incomes and food security in Kenya.