Turning the tide on biodiversity loss:

Africa charts a future for its forgotten vegetables

African governments, researchers, development partners, and civil society groups have committed to a continent-wide effort to rescue and promote traditional African vegetables, following the signing of the Nairobi Declaration on Vegetable Biodiversity at the first African Vegetable Forum in Nairobi. The Declaration commits participants to share responsibility for conserving Africa’s vegetable genetic resources, mobilizing resources […]

Children’s meals are getting greener in Eswatini

Six year old Kuble Shongue says how much she and her friends like the vegetables, and that they would like to eat them more often at school and at home. They would also like to have seed kits to take home to plant with their families

The government of the Kingdom of Eswatini and the Taiwan Embassy in Eswatini greatly facilitated implementation, with utmost appreciation to the government of Taiwan through its Council of Agriculture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs for financial and technical support. At least 10,000 children now have improved nutrition from eating traditional vegetables, thanks to the TAVI […]