The Great garlic homecoming: Rare farmer varieties return to the Philippines after 30 years abroad

The Great garlic homecoming:

Rare farmer varieties return to the Philippines after 30 years abroad

Several rare garlic varieties […]

Neil Palmer2025-08-20T00:24:28+00:00August 19, 2025|Categories: Global, Latest News, Uncategorized|Tags: conservation, garlic tissue culture, genebank, Philippines, Taiwan|

SAFEGUARDING AND SHARING SEEDS — A new vegetable genebank for Africa

SAFEGUARDING AND SHARING SEEDS

A new vegetable genebank for Africa

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Angel Jeng2025-08-08T03:21:38+00:00August 8, 2025|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: genebank, seed, TAVI, traditional African vegetables|

MEETING NEEDS — The Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative (TAVI)

MEETING NEEDS — The Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative (TAVI)

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Angel Jeng2025-08-07T05:19:10+00:00August 7, 2025|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: genebank, mobile kitchen, nutrition, Taiwan, TAVI|

Beneficial biota or bugs of burden? The microbial dilemma at the heart of seed conservation

Beneficial biota or bugs of burden?

The microbial dilemma at the heart of seed conservation

OPINION

By Abdul Shango

Research Associate – […]

Angel Jeng2025-08-11T01:53:25+00:00August 4, 2025|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: conservation, foodsecurity, fungus, genebank, Microbiome, nutrition, okra, onehealth, seed, soilhealth, soybean, worldveg|

Ready, set, grow! NASA-pioneered research accelerates chili breeding

Ready, set, grow!

NASA-pioneered research accelerates chili breeding

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Angel Jeng2025-08-04T02:57:28+00:00August 3, 2025|Categories: Headquarters, Latest News|Tags: conservation, foodsecurity, fungus, genebank, Microbiome, nutrition, okra, onehealth, seed, soilhealth, soybean, worldveg|

SAVE, SHARE AND SOW VEGETABLE SEEDS: CORE ACTIVITIES AT WORLDVEG’S INTERNATIONAL VEGETABLE GENEBANK

Save, Share and Sow Vegetable Seeds: Core activities at Worldveg’s International Vegetable Genebank

Diversify diets and farmer fields with wide […]

Angel Jeng2025-06-23T04:19:36+00:00June 23, 2025|Categories: Global, Latest News|Tags: ACIAR, Africa, Bellagio, biodiversity, CGIAR, Crop Trust, genebank, GENESYS, seed, Taiwan, treaty, vegetable, worldveg|

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 

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Angel Jeng2025-04-10T06:05:22+00:00April 10, 2025|Categories: Global, Headquarters, Latest News|Tags: biodiversity, genebank, seeds|

African Vegetables’ Path to the Svalbard Seed Vault

African Vegetables’ Path to the Svalbard Seed Vault

The World Vegetable Center’s Africa Vegetable Genebank sent a significant batch of […]

Timothy Cheng2024-10-24T02:04:25+00:00October 24, 2024|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa|Tags: genebank|

Regeneration of vegetable germplasm in Taiwan – and its repatriation, the role of ‘citizen regenerators’, and more support from the Ministry of Agriculture

Regeneration of vegetable germplasm in Taiwan – and its repatriation, the role of ‘citizen regenerators’, and more support from the […]

Angel Jeng2024-06-19T02:43:16+00:00June 19, 2024|Categories: East and Southeast Asia, Headquarters, Latest News|Tags: breeding, genebank, germplasm, regeneration, seeds|

More seed is sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

More seed is sent to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

In May 2024, another large batch of seed left World […]

Angel Jeng2024-05-31T07:21:54+00:00May 31, 2024|Categories: Headquarters, Latest News, Uncategorized|Tags: genebank, germplasm, safety duplications, Svalbard|