— 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
EU Ambassadors visit SAFEVEG Vegetable Business Networks
EU Ambassadors visit SAFEVEG Vegetable Business Networks The SafeVeg Project takes the European Union Ambassadors to "Les Jardins de l’espoir,” one of its flagship Vegetable Business Networks. This field visit was very much [...]
Vegetable food systems in Benin: A photo-essay
Vegetable food systems in Benin: A photo-essay Story and photos: Jody Harris | April, 2023 Jody Harris, the global food systems specialist at WorldVeg, reflects on a recent visit to Benin, following [...]
SAFEVEG is training Benin’s vegetable farmers on the technology to manufacture Beneficial Native Microorganisms (BAMs)
SAFEVEG is training Benin's vegetable farmers on the technology to manufacture Beneficial Native Microorganisms (BAMs). Story and photos: Marcel Beria| March 28, 2023 Training workshop partcipants. Soil provides nutrients, water, [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
ACIAR and WorldVeg sign new agreement
ACIAR and WorldVeg sign new agreement 3 February 2023 The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has renewed its research for development partnership with the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), signing a [...]
Imperatives for improvement of food safety in fruit and vegetable value chains in Viet Nam
Imperatives for improvement of food safety in fruit and vegetable value chains in Viet Nam Fruit and vegetables are essential for good health and generate income for millions of smallholder farmers and other [...]
The status of seed and seedling systems in Dhaka and Metro Manila
The status of seed and seedling systems in Dhaka and Metro Manila This work was conducted as part of the CGIAR Research Initiative, ‘Resilient cities through sustainable urban and peri-urban agrifood systems’ supported [...]
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.