— 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.
WorldVeg’s 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
The future of African vegetable biodiversity ensured through a new genetic resources ‘rescue plan’
The future of African vegetable biodiversity ensured through a new genetic resources ‘rescue plan’ Representatives of plant genetic resources networks from across Africa validated a new African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan in [...]
A quiet agricultural revolution is happening, in Zanzibar…
A quiet agricultural revolution is happening, in Zanzibar… Zanzibar! The word conjures up in the mind of many, an exotic island paradise. But there is another side, not seen by the half [...]
Seeds of Change: Enhancing availability of improved vegetable varieties in Tanzania
Seeds of Change: Enhancing availability of improved vegetable varieties in Tanzania The One CGIAR Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) Initiative aims to use an end-to-end approach to increase fruit [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
The 40th International Vegetable Training Course
The 40th International Vegetable Training Course The acronym IVTC has become well known in agricultural research circles in Asia over the years. The first International Vegetable Training Course (IVTC) was organized by [...]
ICRISAT chickpea collections conserved at the WorldVeg genebank
ICRISAT chickpea collections conserved at the WorldVeg genebank On 31 October, a consignment of more than 1.1 tonnes of chickpea seed was received by the WorldVeg genebank at its headquarters in Shanhua [...]
“Seedbanks must be at the forefront” – the Global Crop Diversity Summit
“Seedbanks must be at the forefront” - the Global Crop Diversity Summit Scientists issued a rallying cry for greater global cooperation to safeguard seeds for future food and nutrition security, at the [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Growth Habit
Perspectives to expand your view of vegetables
MY SUCCESS
RECENT RESEARCH
Visit HARVEST, the WorldVeg digital document archive:
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.