Over the next two to three years, AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center will institutionalize a strengthened management strategy to improve efficiency and effectiveness through better organizational learning and the overt fulfillment of accountability obligations through enhanced performance reporting.
In fields and laboratories, in marketplaces and meeting rooms, AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center joins with partners across the globe to ensure vegetables are on the table: in homes, in markets, and wherever agricultural policy is made.
Vegetables, in all their many forms, can bring a much-needed measure of balance back to diets, livelihoods, and economies. The World Vegetable Center helps individuals, communities, and countries keep their balance better by providing improved germplasm, disseminating safe production practices, and exploring new market opportunities for vegetables.
AVRDC acknowledges the assistance of its staff in the preparation of this document, specifically Dr. Warwick Easdown for managing the production process and for editing the manuscript, Ms. Christie Clavero for editing and layout, Ms. Dolores Ledesma for the statistical review, and Mr. Chen Ming-che for the cover photo and
AVRDC is a world leader in the collection, evaluation, and conservation of tomatoes. AVRDC’s tomato germplasm is the foundation for a large proportion of tomatoes grown in the tropics. These tomatoes are increasing farmers’ incomes, providing new management options for smallholder farmers and improving the quality of diets particularly for
AVRDC is a world leader in the development of vegetable legume varieties. Our mungbean varieties are currently being sown on over 3 million ha in Asia. Much of the world’s grain soybean and nearly all of its vegetable soybean varieties originated from our germplasm. These legumes are increasing farmers’ incomes,
AVRDC. 2003. AVRDC Report 2002. AVRDC Publication Number 03-563. Shanhua, Taiwan: AVRDC—the World Vegetable Center. 182 pp.
During the past year, our scientists have made significant strides in many areas of scientific endeavor, including germplasm collection and utilization, crop improvement, sustainable production technologies, and human capacity building.
AVRDC, the only international research center working exclusively on vegetable crops, continues its efforts to make sure that nutritious vegetables can be accessible to the poor in the developing world through its scientific endeavors.
AVRDC is the only international institute dedicated to vegetable research and development in the tropics and subtropics. Our mission is to enhance the nutritional well-being of people and raise the incomes of farmers in the target zones through improvement of key vegetables and their cultivation technologies.
