Science and innovation for enhanced vegetable production and consumption in a rapidly changing world
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.
Celebration on the International Day of Plant Health
Celebration on the International Day of Plant Health On 12 May 2025, the World Vegetable Center hosted a formal commemoration of the International Day of Plant Health (IDPH) under the theme “Healthy Plants, [...]
Guaranteeing good food on our plates, tomorrow and forever—Inaugurating the newly modernized International Vegetable Genebank
Guaranteeing good food on our plates, tomorrow and forever—Inaugurating the newly modernized International Vegetable Genebank Genetic diversity is essential to achieving global food and nutrition security. On 31 March 31 2025, WorldVeg celebrated [...]
WorldVeg opens a new country office in Mexico – opening opportunities for greater impact in Latin America and the Caribbean
WorldVeg opens a new country office in Mexico – opening opportunities for greater impact in Latin America and the Caribbean For more than 50 years, the World Vegetable Center has been at the [...]
Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa
Eastern and Southern Africa in the African nightshade field - From Annual Report 2024 - Selected highlights 20 demonstration plots of 3 amaranth, 1 African eggplant and 1 tomato open pollinated [...]
SafeVeg– Local production of safe vegetables for West African consumers
SafeVeg– Local production of safe vegetables for West African consumers - From Annual Report 2024 - SafeVeg is contributing to developing a competitive vegetable sector in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali. This is [...]
Veggies 4 Planet & People (V4P&P) – Enabling vegetable business development in East Africa
Veggies 4 Planet & People (V4P&P) – Enabling vegetable business development in East Africa - From Annual Report 2024 - V4P&P made strides towards enhancing youth employment, healthier ecosystems and better nutrition in [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
Applications Open: PhD Research Fellowship in Agroecology at the World Vegetable Center
Applications Open: PhD Research Fellowship in Agroecology at the World Vegetable Center The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) invites applications from highly qualified PhD students for a Research Fellowship to conduct their doctoral research at [...]
Fast-tracked climate-smart vegetables on course to reach one million farmers
Fast-tracked climate-smart vegetables on course to reach one million farmers New, climate-smart vegetable varieties developed through a partnership between the World Vegetable Center and the Asia-Pacific Seed Association (APSA) could soon reach 1 [...]
New report shows the benefits of public-private partnerships for promoting the sharing of improved vegetable varieties in Asia
New report shows the benefits of public-private partnerships for promoting the sharing of improved vegetable varieties in Asia [Download here] This new report documents progress of increasing impacts of the Asia and [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
Evaluating vegetable varieties in the Caribbean
Evaluating vegetable varieties in the Caribbean The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of food supply chains in Caribbean islands, especially for important commodities such as fresh fruit and vegetables. With the support [...]
CARDI and WorldVeg sign MOU to strengthen fruit and vegetable value chains in the Caribbean
Sustainably developing production and distribution of produce to benefit people across the Caribbean.
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.
Growth Habit
Perspectives to expand your view of vegetables
MY SUCCESS
RECENT RESEARCH
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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.