— Healthier lives, more resilient livelihoods through greater diversity in what we grow and eat —
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.
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.
Africa
Meeting the need for food security with more vegetables in Sudan
Meeting the need for food security with more vegetables in Sudan Most of Sudan’s 45 million people rely on farming for their livelihoods. More frequent and severe droughts and floods over past decades [...]
Validation of the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan by the African Union Commission
Validation of the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan by the African Union Commission The African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan, developed by WorldVeg, the African Union Commission and many partners across the continent and [...]
Seeds4Soils – Improving climate resilience in Madagascar by regenerating soils with agrobiodiversity
Seeds4Soils – Improving climate resilience in Madagascar by regenerating soils with agrobiodiversity The new three-year project (2024-2027) aims to regenerate agricultural soils and increase climate resilience of vulnerable farming communities in Madagascar by exploiting [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
Breeding new disease resistant loofah gourd hybrids
Breeding new disease resistant loofah gourd hybrids Two species of loofah, ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula) and sponge gourd (Luffa cylindrica), are important commercial food and cash crops rich in calcium, magnesium, [...]
PRESS RELEASE – Research paper on Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods wins prestigious Cozzarelli Prize in Washington, DC
PRESS RELEASE - Research paper on Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods wins prestigious Cozzarelli Prize in Washington, DC TAINAN CITY, TAIWAN and NAIROBI, KENYA (23 April 2024) -- An international research team led by the [...]
Saving and sharing Asian vegetable biodiversity – an international learning experience
Saving and sharing Asian vegetable biodiversity - an international learning experience Vegetables are hugely important for human nutrition, and for diverse and resilient farming systems that generate income for smallholder producers, processors and traders. [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Growth Habit
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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.