— 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.
WorldVeg hosts a group from the African Elite Training Program
WorldVeg hosts a group from the African Elite Training Program In order to assist African countries in nurturing high-level talents and strengthening Africa's understanding of friendly farming practices and resilient agriculture, the Ministry of [...]
Towards future collaboration – WorldVeg and COLEAD sign new MoU
Towards future collaboration – WorldVeg and COLEAD sign new MoU Marco Wopereis, WorldVeg Director General, and Jeremy Knops, COLEAD General Delegate, sign a new Memorandum of Understanding The mission of both [...]
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 [...]
Africa
Boosting nutrition and climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa with ‘forgotten foods’
Boosting nutrition and climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa with ‘forgotten foods’ A news item was recently released on Mongabay (26 July 2024), reporting on landmark research led by scientists from the World Vegetable Center. [...]
Launching the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan
Launching the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan African vegetables are more adapted to climate change compared to staple crops, as recent award-winning research on ‘opportunity crops’ has shown - but an earlier study also [...]
WorldVeg working to increase onion and tomato yields in Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon
WorldVeg working to increase onion and tomato yields in Côte d’Ivoire and Gabon WorldVeg scientists provide important technical support to the ‘Enhancement of tomato and onion production in Africa for maximum sustainable yield’ project, funded [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
Reporting on a ‘roving workshop’ on urban gardening in Quezon City, the Philippines
Reporting on a ‘roving workshop’ on urban gardening in Quezon City, the Philippines The One CGIAR Resilient Cities project is supporting community farms in Quezon City to diversify the vegetables they grow by introducing [...]
A step nearer to establishing CADRE – a new agricultural research consortium for Southeast Asia
A step nearer to establishing CADRE – a new agricultural research consortium for Southeast Asia More than a hundred stakeholders from the region spent two days deliberating on establishing a network of high-caliber, like-minded [...]
WorldVeg hosts a group from the African Elite Training Program
WorldVeg hosts a group from the African Elite Training Program In order to assist African countries in nurturing high-level talents and strengthening Africa's understanding of friendly farming practices and resilient agriculture, the Ministry of [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Promoting vegetable diversity and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean, with more tolerant varieties
Promoting vegetable diversity and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean, with more tolerant varieties Cahabonero chili pepper in Alta Verapaz now being improved for resistance to viruses, phythophtora blight and fusarium [...]
Growth Habit
Perspectives to expand your view of vegetables
Taller, heavier, hungrier: Can global agriculture meet our demand for more food?
As Body Mass Index (BMI) rises, expect a marked increase in global calorie requirements.
RECENT RESEARCH
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MY SUCCESS
Vegetable innovations key to unlocking potential of women farmers
In Tanzania, exposure to best farming practices opens new opportunities for enterprising farmer Pendael Paulo.
Tiny, tasty, and packed with nutrients
Ms. Adolat Berdieva produces cherry tomatoes in a low-cost greenhouse she built herself.
A young man’s vision
Plants are the inspiration and income the motivation for a young Ghanaian graduate to take up farming as a career.
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.