Science and innovation for enhanced vegetable production and consumption in a rapidly changing world
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.
Transforming urban food systems to support healthy diets and resilient livelihoods – A new WorldVeg infobrief
Transforming urban food systems to support healthy diets and resilient livelihoods - A new WorldVeg infobrief (Download the infobrief here) The world’s population is on track to reach 9.6 billion people [...]
Vegetable interventions as a humanitarian response: Best practice guidelines and assessment tool
Vegetable interventions as a humanitarian response: Best practice guidelines and assessment tool (Download the report here) These guidelines were developed for humanitarian practitioners engaged in emergency and recovery programs with a vegetable production component. [...]
Priorities for research and action – a new WorldVeg brief
Priorities for research and action – a new WorldVeg brief Download brief here This eight-page brief summarizes what WorldVeg does, and why. It introduces the problem, and the key role of [...]
Africa
Teacher Musa wins an award from the TAVI project in Eswatini for promoting traditional African vegetables
Teacher Musa wins an award from the TAVI project in Eswatini for promoting traditional African vegetables When his name was announced the overall Gold award winner, Musa could not believe his ears, he waited for [...]
The WorldVeg collection of African vegetables expands and is more widely shared
The WorldVeg collection of African vegetables expands and is more widely shared In 2021, the World Vegetable Center held about 2,700 accessions of about 60 species of traditional African vegetables, of the 400 documented species [...]
Assessing tomato and pepper market segmentation in Central and Southern Africa
Assessing tomato and pepper market segmentation in Central and Southern Africa Participants visit the World Vegetable Center gene bank in Arusha, Tanzania, 23 October 2024. The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), in collaboration with the [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
Home gardening support to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – a report on a baseline survey
Home gardening support to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – a report on a baseline survey The number of people displaced by conflict and natural disasters around the world has risen greatly in [...]
The 41 st International Vegetable Training Course successfully concludes
The 41 st International Vegetable Training Course successfully concludes The World Vegetable Center in partnership with Kasetsart University, recently hosted the 41st International Vegetable Training Course (IVTC) on Vegetable Breeding for the Tropics. This [...]
Advancing the future of mungbean breeding: Insights from the IMIN workshop 2024
Advancing the future of mungbean breeding: Insights from the IMIN workshop 2024 The International Mungbean Improvement Network (IMIN) hosted its 2024 Workshop at World Vegetable Center – South and Central Asia in Hyderabad, [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Our Featured Projects
Engaging women and youth in vegetable production and distribution networks to close the ‘vegetable gap’ and improve livelihoods and nutrition in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Sustainable and climate-smart agricultural and post-harvest practices to increase vegetable consumption in urban and peri-urban areas of West Africa.
Conserve and use African vegetable biodiversity to address malnutrition by increasing the production and consumption of nutritious vegetables.
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 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.