AVRDC at AFSTA annual symposium
The Center hosted a symposium about vegetable seed systems during this seminal event for seed in Africa.
Producing and saving seed in Papua New Guinea
AVRDC is strengthening seed security in Papua New Guinea and enhancing availability of good quality seed of traditional vegetable crops, produced by the farmers themselves.
Consulting Cambodian stakeholders
AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center initiated the Cambodia component of the five-country USAID-funded project “Deploying vegetable seed kits to tackle malnutrition” through a Consultation Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 10-11 August 2015. Representatives from USAID, internationally funded agricultural projects, Cambodian national and provincial agricultural institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector participated in the workshop, providing guidance, perspective and recommendations for implementation.
New varieties for Central Asia
The 2015 Catalogue of Released and Promising Vegetable and Legume Varieties for Central Asia and the Caucasus offers a look at 98 improved varieties developed from AVRDC germplasm in collaboration with research institutions and universities in the Regional Network for Vegetable Systems Research and Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Crops include tomato, hot and sweet pepper, eggplant, mungbean, vegetable soybean, yard-long bean, pea, cucumber, vegetable marrow, custard squash, Chinese leafy cabbage, lettuce, celery, and basil.
From cleaning rooms to cleaning seed
Two entrepreneurs start-up a small-scale business to produce seed of traditional vegetables in Cameroon.
Inspired by seed
Seed from the AVRDC Genebank and the Eastern and Southern Africa Seed Repository is on prominent display in the 56th […]
Increased resiliency of vulnerable communities in Puri district, Odisha to recurrent floods
Start date: 2012
End date: 2014
This project will strengthen the capacity of vulnerable communities in Puri district, Odisha to prepare for […]
The AVRDC Genebank
Asian Seed, the official publication of the Asia and Pacific Seed Association, featured an article about the AVRDC Genebank in its March/April 2014 issue.
From seed to sales
Research has its rewards, provided you are willing to wait. In the early 1990s AVRDC embarked on a project to […]