— 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.
Vegetable interventions as a humanitarian response: Best practice guidelines and assessment tool
Vegetable interventions as a humanitarian response: Best practice guidelines and assessment tool (Download the report here) These guidelines were developed for humanitarian practitioners engaged in emergency and recovery programs with a vegetable production component. [...]
Priorities for research and action – a new WorldVeg brief
Priorities for research and action – a new WorldVeg brief Download brief here This eight-page brief summarizes what WorldVeg does, and why. It introduces the problem, and the key role of [...]
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
‘Seed homecomings’ –WorldVeg repatriating vegetable germplasm to their Southeast Asia countries of origin
‘Seed homecomings’ –WorldVeg repatriating vegetable germplasm to their Southeast Asia countries of origin Many thousands of vegetable seed samples were collected 20-30 years ago across Southeast Asia by national genebanks and the World Vegetable Center. [...]
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’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Promoting proficiency for breeding new vegetable varieties in the Americas
Promoting proficiency for breeding new vegetable varieties in the Americas With the support of the Government of Taiwan, WorldVeg began a project in 2021 with a major focus on developing a vegetable network [...]
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.