— 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.
Rescuing vegetable biodiversity for a more nutritious and resilient future – the urgent need to establish a global initiative
Rescuing vegetable biodiversity for a more nutritious and resilient future – the urgent need to establish a global initiative The urgent need to rescue, conserve, [...]
A new guide to using landscape genomics analysis to enhance conservation and use of plant genetic resources
A new guide to using landscape genomics analysis to enhance conservation and use of plant genetic resources Climate change and environmental disturbances due to human activities are posing significant threats to biodiversity, which in [...]
New report highlights the impact of 50 years of WorldVeg research
New report highlights the impact of 50 years of WorldVeg research Download the full report Analysis of five decades of WorldVeg publications in scientific journals and books indexed in Scopus and Web of Science [...]
Africa
Vegetable business networks – some lessons from implementing the approach in West Africa
Vegetable business networks – some lessons from implementing the approach in West Africa The World Vegetable Center has been implementing a business model to enhance employment and income opportunities for women and youth [...]
“Working together to grow together” – benefits in Mali from creating a cooperative society
“Working together to grow together” – benefits in Mali from creating a cooperative society Soumaila Keita, champion market gardener in Pelegana, Ségou, Mali, and documents related to the formal registration of [...]
Vegetable business networks empower women and youth: a new report highlights lessons from East Africa
Vegetable business networks empower women and youth: a new report highlights lessons from East Africa Vegetable production and marketing offer a viable avenue for women and youth in East Africa to generate income [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
High yielding and more resistant chili hybrids being developed in Sri Lanka
High yielding and more resistant chili hybrids being developed in Sri Lanka Cover of the Yummy Hot F1 hybrid seed pack, developed in collaboration with WorldVeg Taiwan and the CGIAR-funded FRESH initiative [...]
Accelerating the development of climate-resilient vegetable varieties with a new ‘speed breeding’ facility
Accelerating the development of climate-resilient vegetable varieties with a new ‘speed breeding’ facility The World Vegetable Center has established a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art ‘speed breeding’ facility for pepper and tomato breeding at its headquarters [...]
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’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America / Caribbean
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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.