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.
Nutrition, jobs, resilience: AGRA-WorldVeg partnership puts vegetables at the center of Africa’s food systems transformation WorldVeg is teaming up with AGRA to ensure vegetables play a bigger role in Africa’s [...]
Unleashing the power of vegetables: New WorldVeg Global Strategy sets a bold direction for a healthier, wealthier, more resilient future The World Vegetable Center has launched an ambitious eight-year Global [...]
The Great garlic homecoming: Rare farmer varieties return to the Philippines after 30 years abroad Several rare garlic varieties – once common on Philippine farms but now nearly impossible to find [...]
Tackling the crisis of neglect: Scientists call for urgent action on traditional African vegetables Amaranth from Africa's Vegetable Genebank growing in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Pic by Neil Palmer for [...]
"The soil is healthy, the crops are happy - and so are we": Reviving Eswatini’s traditional foods through the Taiwan–Africa Vegetable Initiative They were once seen as ‘poor man’s food’ [...]
Africa Food Prize recognises champion of traditional vegetables Renowned Kenyan scientist and long-term WorldVeg partner Professor Mary Abukutsa-Onyango has been named joint winner of the 2025 Africa Food Prize, in [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Africa: 📍 Eastern & Southern Africa Office – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Dry Regions) – 📍 West & Central Africa Office (Humid Regions)
WorldVeg joins kick-off campaign to highlight traditional Thai Foods The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) recently joined partners from the Thai government, academia, and the private sector, to launch a campaign [...]
From firefights to foresight: APEC event demonstrates how AI-enabled tech can fight crop pests and diseases Climate change is intensifying pest and disease pressure for many food crops, and vegetables [...]
27th International Pepper Conference: Four fiery days in Bangkok set to ignite crop research Things are heating up with the 27th International Pepper Conference just a few months away. For four fiery days [...]
WorldVeg’s Offices in Asia: 📍 Headquarters in Taiwan – 📍 South & Central Asia Office – 📍 East & Southeast Asia Office
Latin America and the Caribbean - From Annual Report 2024 - Selected highlights A WorldVeg-developed habanero variety outperformed all local checks in Belize, and is undergoing on-farm trial across the country. 30 stakeholders [...]
Hot Prospects: WorldVeg chilies make a strong debut in Mexico’s first harvest WorldVeg chilies in Santiago Miahuatlán, Puebla. High-yielding chilies developed by the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) are showing great promise [...]
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.
WorldVeg’s impact is global
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.
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Analysis of the impact of home gardens in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya shows the importance of carefully identifying local barriers to growing and eating vegetables at home.
Alert systems can empower farmers and other plant health system stakeholders with low-cost solutions to mitigate risk.
The vegetable seed sector in sub-Saharan Africa has received little attention in the development agenda. World Vegetable Center scientists teamed up with experts and managers of leading vegetable seed companies in Asia and Africa to define a way forward.
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Recent research indicates neglecting the "unruly" family members of cultivated vegetable crops imperils future food security and our resilience to climate change.
Fruits and vegetables for healthy diets: Priorities for food system research and action: UN Food Systems Summit Brief reviews the academic literature on food systems issues.
Leveraging data, models and farming innovation to prevent, prepare for and manage pest incursions: A UN Food Systems Summit / AIRCA paper shows how alert systems can empower farmers and other plant health system stakeholders with low-cost solutions to mitigate risk.
Vegetables and Climate Change: Pathways to Resilience. With 50 years of experience in adapting vegetable varieties and production systems to the high temperatures and weather extremes in tropical and sub-tropical regions, WorldVeg is well-positioned to develop climate change adaptation and mitigation options along the vegetable value chain.
International vegetable breeding: A strategy to create development impact at scale. How the World Vegetable Center’s breeding research can contribute to realizing the potential of vegetables for healthier lives and more resilient livelihoods.
Tapping the economic and nutritional power of vegetables: Vegetables are essential for food and nutrition security. Vegetable consumption must be nurtured through a combination of supply-side interventions and behavioral change communication.
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 [...]
Making mungbean more productive and profitable at the 2024 International Mungbean Congress More than 100 participants from 25 countries gathered for the 2024 International Mungbean Congress in Bangkok, Thailand from 5-7 March. Major [...]
Revolutionizing food safety in Cambodia with new pesticide residue testing technology Pesticide residues are a major concern in imported and locally produced vegetables. With the introduction of this state-of-the-art technology, Cambodia has [...]
New pepper varieties released in Taiwan and Nigeria In Taiwan, bell pepper seeds are mostly imported from abroad, are susceptible to impacts of international trade, and many varieties are not suitable to [...]
Schreinemachers, P.; Lin, M. 2022. Use of World Vegetable Center breeding lines among seed companies in Asia in 2021. World Vegetable Center, online.
Anitha, S.; Afari-Sefa, V.; Kalumikiza, Z.; Mhango, K.; Mosha, I.; Muzanila, Y.; Mwangwela, A.; Ochieng, J.; Okori, P.; Tsusaka, T. 2022. Improved household nutrition through home-grown produce and consumption of nutritious and healthy products. In: Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. / ed. by Bekunda, M.; Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.; Odhong, J.; Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 119-133.
Ayenan, M.A.T.; Danquah, A.; Hanson, P.; Asante, I.K.; Danquah, E.Y. 2022. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotypes respond differently to long-term dry and humid heat stress. HORTICULTURAE. 8(2):118.
Depenbusch, L.; Schreinemachers, P.; Brown, S.; Roothaert, R. 2022. Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia. FOOD SECURITY. online.
Fischer, G. 2022. Weaving gender into sustainable intensification interventions. In: Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners in East and Southern Africa. / ed. by Bekunda, M.; Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.; Odhong, J. ; Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 1-12.
Kirana, R.; Hermanto, C.; Reflinur; Barchenger, D.W. 2022. Performance of introduced lines based on morphological markers for diversity enrichment of Indonesian chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) varieties. AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. 2462(1): 020036.
Melomey, L.D.; Ayenan, M.A.T.; Marechera, G.; Abu, P.; Danquah, A.; Tarus, D.; Danquah, E.Y. 2022. Pre-and post-harvest practices and varietal preferences of tomato in Ghana. SUSTAINABILITY. 14(3):1436.
Rubiales, D.; Khazaei, H. 2022. Advances in disease and pest resistance in faba bean. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. online.
Sáez, C.; Flores-León, A.; Montero-Pau, J.; Sifres, A.; Dhillon, N.P.S.; López, C.; Picó, B. 2022. RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis provides candidate genes for resistance to tomato leaf curl New Delhi Virus in melon. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 12:798858.
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.