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The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
Institution
Section overview
Description
AVRDC – the World Vegetable Center is the leading international center for vegetable research and development worldwide. It is a not-for-profit research institute focused on the alleviation of poverty and malnutrition in developing countries through the improved production and consumption of safe vegetables. Founded in 1971 as the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center with a mandate to enhance vegetable production in the Asian tropics, the World Vegetable Center now has a global role in promoting and supporting vegetable research and development in Africa, Asia, and other regions of the world.
Activities
- Research
Coordinated projects
- Adoption pathways for vegetable integrated pest management technologies reducing pesticide use and pesticide health hazards in India
- Application of Molecular Markers to Broaden the Genetic Base of Tomato for Improved Tropical Adaptation and Durable Disease Resistance
- Developing and initiating the implementation of AVRDC's organic vegetable program
- Development of locally adapted, multiple disease-resistant, high yielding chili (Capsicum annuum) cultivars for China, India, Indonesia and Thailand
- Food safety in fruits and vegetables in Vietnam - consumer demand and firms compliance
- Genetic, Physiological, and Molecular Approaches to Improve Heat and Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tomato
- Less loss, more profit, better health: reducing the losses caused by the pod borer (Maruca vitrata) on Vegetable legumes in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by refining component technologies of a sustainable management strategy
- Promotion of neglected indigenous vegetable crops (IV) for nutritional health in Eastern and Southern Africa (Phase II)
Involved in research projects
- Development of novel management techniques for Phyllotreta striolata (F.) in crucifer crops - Impact of glucosinolate, their hydrolysis products and male-derived aggregation pheromones
- Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems
- Study of the antidiabetic properties of Momordica charantia
- Vegetable cucurbits for nutrition-sensitive home and school gardens in Southeast Asia
Contact
The World Vegetable Center
(AVRDC)
P.O. Box 42
P.O. Box 42 Tainan 741 Shanhua
Taiwan
Taiwan
Phone: +886-6-583-7801
Fax: +886-6-583-0009
Email: avrdc(@)avrdc.org
