— 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.
The power of vegetables, in poetry
The power of vegetables, in poetry The World Vegetable Center promotes healthier lives, more resilient livelihoods through greater diversity in what we grow and eat. This it does through research and development – through science [...]
World Vegetable Center signs an MoU Equity Bank Foundation
World Vegetable Center signs an MoU Equity Bank Foundation On September 4, 2024, a significant partnership was formed between the World Vegetable Centerand the Equity Group Foundation. They signed an agreement to join forces in [...]
Taiwan Ministry of Agriculture and WorldVeg sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Taiwan Ministry of Agriculture and WorldVeg sign a Memorandum of Understanding Building on 50 years of collaboration, a new Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Taipei on 31 July 2024, by Junne-Jih Chen, Minister of [...]
Africa
The WorldVeg collection of African vegetables expands and is more widely shared
The WorldVeg collection of African vegetables expands and is more widely shared In 2021, the World Vegetable Center held about 2,700 accessions of about 60 species of traditional African vegetables, of the 400 documented species [...]
Assessing tomato and pepper market segmentation in Central and Southern Africa
Assessing tomato and pepper market segmentation in Central and Southern Africa Participants visit the World Vegetable Center gene bank in Arusha, Tanzania, 23 October 2024. The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg), in collaboration with the [...]
Vegetable business networks are creating jobs in Ethiopia and Kenya, including for women and youth – Results from a case study
Vegetable business networks are creating jobs in Ethiopia and Kenya, including for women and youth – Results from a case study Between 2020 and 2025, WorldVeg and the Dutch NGO SNV are implementing the [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
Asia
A new report assesses vegetable seed collections in selected Southeast Asian genebanks
A new report assesses vegetable seed collections in selected Southeast Asian genebanks In Southeast Asia, the diversity of vegetable genetic resources in farmers’ fields has narrowed due to a variety of factors, including the [...]
Celebrating ‘seed homecoming’ in Thailand
Celebrating ‘seed homecoming’ in Thailand Decades ago, WorldVeg and national partners across Southeast Asia, collected thousands of vegetable seed accessions, which were stored at the genebank at WorldVeg headquarters in Taiwan. Now, the time [...]
Home gardening support to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – a report on a baseline survey
Home gardening support to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – a report on a baseline survey The number of people displaced by conflict and natural disasters around the world has risen greatly in [...]
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 [...]
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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.