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World Vegetable Center

May 29, 2020


World Vegetable Center announces that 12 vegetable varieties, including 9 traditional vegetables, have been registered in Cameroon’s official catalog of varieties


May 13, 2020


A field day without the field - They couldn’t meet in person, but that didn’t stop members of the APSA-WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium from gathering—virtually—to share progress and explore opportunities ahead for the vegetable seed sector in Asia


May 6, 2020


World Vegetable Center - A closer look at a special collection of Capsicum could reveal important crop characteristics not visible to the human eye - New instruments make it possible


May 4, 2020


The Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium highlighted at the 2020 African Seed Trade Association Congress


April 21, 2020


Asia-Pacific seed trade reeling from COVID-19 lockdown - Severe restrictions on the movements of people and goods imposed in recent weeks are having widespread negative effects on the seed industry in the Asia-Pacific region with international seed trade particularly affected, a survey of seed companies finds


April 10, 2020


World Vegetable Center releases its 2019 annual report


February 26, 2020


World Vegetable Center seed en route to the Global Seed Vault - More than 700 samples of 23 vegetable species headed for storage in Svalbard, Norway


December 12, 2019


World Vegetable Center holds international vegetable training courses  


Quality seeds for Asian and African vegetable growers - Remarks presented by World Vegetable Center Director General Marco Wopereis during the 2019 World Food Prize Borlaug International Symposium, 16 October 2019, Des Moines, Iowa USA


August 15, 2019


International Vegetable Breeding: A Strategy to Create Development Impact at Scale (World Vegetable Center)


The 5th edition of Bitter Gourd Open Field Days showcased elite breeding lines of a popular Asian cucurbit at the WorldVeg East and Southeast Asia Research and Training Station in Thailand


June 5, 2019


World Vegetable Center - Annual report 2019


World Vegetable Center opens office in Korea


The Asia & Pacific Seed Association (APSA)-World Vegetable Center Vegetable Breeding Consortium held its annual workshop on 15-16 May 2019 at WorldVeg headquarters in Shanhua, Taiwan


April 15, 2019


Improved vegetable varieties developed by Taiwan seed companies and trialed in Thailand can invigorate the seed industry in Southeast Asia


March 8, 2019


Taipei architecture firm wins contract for World Vegetable Center research infrastructure modernization - EDS International selected to design new laboratory and other facilities for international agricultural research institute in southern Taiwan


January 29, 2019


WorldVeg and ACIAR sign new agreement to guide future collaboration


January 20, 2019


To secure the future of food, look to the ancestors of eggplant - At the World Vegetable Center, experts are looking to the wild relatives of domesticated crops—like eggplant—to save the human diet from climate change (KQED)


September 3, 2018


A bridge for food crops - The Crop Trust’s Pre-breeding Project links genebanks and breeding programs to develop greater diversity in crop plants


June 20, 2018


APSA/WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium: Growing stronger with every new member


African Seed Trade Association members with an interest in plant breeding for the development of improved vegetable varieties can now tap the knowledge and expertise of WorldVeg through the Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium—a joint initiative of WorldVeg and AFSTA


February 14, 2018


WorldVeg identifies training needs of the seed industry in India


January 31, 2018


World Vegetable Center joins Svalbard International Seed Vault anniversary celebration (Focus Taiwan)


December 18, 2017


 

The benefits of WorldVeg tomato breeding - World Vegetable Center breeding programs produce the materials national research institutes need to bring new resilient and productive varieties to farmers


December 4, 2017


World Vegetable Center receives grants from Germany to improve vegetable production, farmer incomes, and nutrition in Africa - New projects will bring opportunities to enrich diets with micronutrient-dense foods and expand the skills and income of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa


October 29, 2017


FRESH from the World Vegetable Center


September 3, 2017


The World Vegetable Center: new strategy, new logo


April 25, 2017


Cameroon’s professional onion seed producers


January 24, 2017


Seed industry training in Bangladesh


December 5, 2016


AVRDC - World Vegetable Center Newsletter - December 2016





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