— 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
Training smallholder farmers on veggies in sacks in Ghana
Training smallholder farmers on veggies in sacks in Ghana Within the framework of the One CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative entitled ‘Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and Central Africa’(TAFS-WCA), the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg: [...]
sacks in Ghana: success story
Veggies in sacks in Ghana: A success story of a woman farmer in Berekum District, Bono region, Ghana The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg: https://avrdc.org/)recently introduced the sack gardening technology in Berekum and Akumadan [...]
Veggies in sacks in Ghana: a woman farmer’s account of her experience
Veggies in sacks in Ghana: Experience of a woman farmer in Asuoso, Akumadan, Ghana Following the introduction of the sack gardening technology in Akumadan, Ghana, under the One CG Regional Integrated Initiative entitled [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
Establishing the International Mungbean Improvement Network (IMIN) – Final Phase 1 Report
The final report of the Phase 1 of the International Mungbean Improvement Network (IMIN) has been released this 1st March 2022.
[Podcast] Plant Breeding Stories with Dr Narinder Dhillon
Dr Narinder Dhillon has worked with plant breeding programs around the world and is currently the principal cucurbit breeder at the World Vegetable Center. Dr. Dhillon has a global perspective on solving agricultural issues and [...]
World Vegetable Center sends seed to Korea’s Rural Development Administration
More than 10,000 samples of 59 vegetable species from the WorldVeg genebank in Taiwan duplicated for storage in Korea.
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
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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.