— 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
Launch of a new policy and act on agroecology in Murang’a county, Kenya
Launch of a new policy and act on agroecology in Murang’a county, Kenya Murang'a County Government in Kenya has launched a ground-breaking policy and Act on Agroecology, making it the first of its [...]
Promoting forgotten food crops in Madagascar, and more…
Promoting forgotten food crops in Madagascar, and more… Darwin PM, Sognigbe N’Danikou, being interviewed by journalists At the end of 2022, the Darwin project in Madagascar formally closed after three [...]
Teaching tomato grafting in Kenya – reducing disease, improving yields
Teaching tomato grafting in Kenya - reducing disease, improving yields Dr Wubetu explaining the process of grafting to Ms Sylvia Kuria (KALRO-Thika) and Carolyne Wangungu (WorldVeg Kenya) Bacterial wilt disease [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
New technologies lead to bumper tomato yields in Assam
New technologies lead to bumper tomato yields in Assam This work was funded by World Bank - APART Project. Lutfa Begum Laskar is a progressive female farmer from the northeast of India, [...]
The Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium and WorldVeg
The Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium and WorldVeg The Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium (AVBC) is a partnership for research with a track record of commercial success. Established in 2018, AVBC is a joint initiative [...]
Farmers Field Day on Integrated Pest Management in Lablab bean in India
Farmers Field Day on Integrated Pest Management in Lablab bean in India A Farmers’ Field Day on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in lablab bean was conducted by the Centre for Plant Protection Studies [...]
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.