SAVE, SHARE AND SOW VEGETABLE SEEDS:
CORE ACTIVITIES AT WORLDVEG’S INTERNATIONAL VEGETABLE GENEBANK
Current food systems require transformation to support both human and planetary health. Vegetable biodiversity holds great potential to improve nutrition, livelihoods, and climate resilience. However, vegetable biodiversity is declining rapidly and remains underrepresented in conservation and seed exchange efforts, receiving significantly less investment than staple crops. This decline leads to the irreversible loss of opportunities […]
Gardening support helps Dhaka residents eat healthier
Growing vegetables in a garden to enhance a family meal, with surpluses shared with neighbors or sold, is an age-old practice common everywhere. Its contribution to people’s diets varies by location and season, but is likely to be substantial. Gardening in cities is also common, with many city folk finding unusual spaces to grow—on windowsills, […]
High yielding and more resistant chili hybrids being developed in Sri Lanka
Chili varieties so far developed in Sri Lanka have largely been based on locally available germplasm, that results in a continuation of a narrow genetic base. The mostly popular chili hybrid in Sri Lanka, derived from two local landraces and […]