Delphine Larrousse
@dlarrousseWorldVeg @WorldVegCenter Director, Global Engagement, Former @IDRC_CRDI Views my own
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Meet the WorldVeg ESEA team and take a peek at our research station in Thailand! hosted by @kasetsart_ku @go_vegetables🍅🥕🥦🫑🌶️ WATCH this 1 min video! youtu.be/KmGOL6Kj544 #agresearch
WorldVeg Director Global Engagement 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞 will speak at #GGFA Join us: bit.ly/GFFA_WorldVeg 🎙Topic: Reducing food loss & waste of fruits & vegetables: The potential of urban(izing) food systems 🗓Date: 18 JAN 2024 🕓Time: 16:00-17:30 (CET)
My @GAINalliance colleague Ruth Okowa, Kenya Country Director, describing the Vegetable4All programme in Kenya which aims to improve the consumption of vegetables of 1 million Kenyans. @GAINAlliance_KE at #GFFA with @giz_gmbh and @WorldVegCenter
WorldVeg is pleased to launch a 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 program of its Golden Jubilee Year. MSc & PhD students worldwide are invited to conduct part of their degree programs at WorldVeg’s HQ in Taiwan. Learn more: avrdc.org/golden-jubilee…
Recently, WorldVeg- East and Southeast Asia’s Regional Director, Delphine Larrousse visited Dr. Chuang Suo-hang, Representative to Thailand, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand (TECO) in Bangkok to discuss the Center’s major projects in 2023.
Internally displaced people from fragile and conflict-affected states like Burkina Faso often face #FoodInsecurity and a lack of livelihood options. The short-cycle seed kits hope to support communities by giving access to traditional, easy-to-grow, nutritious vegetables.
WorldVeg made the largest single deposit at Svalbard this year with 11,113 samples of 60 species. Two Indigenous communities worked with WorldVeg to also deposit local varieties such as rice bean, lablab and yard-long bean. @CropTrust seedworld.com/svalbard-globa…
Transforming current #foodsystems and vegetable value chains must have ecological, social, and economic integrity for it to be #sustainable. How can we transform our food systems to benefit the people and planet?
Vegetable consumption in sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest of any region in the world. “To bridge the vegetable gap, people need opportunities to produce and market vegetables to generate income,” said World Vegetable Center’s Ralph Roothaert. buff.ly/3Ohfmgi
Low fruit & vegetable consumption among #LMIC dwellers is a major cause of diet-related #NCDs. Read more about a new joint initiative by @CGIAR @WorldVegCenter & others to understand why & how this happens to promote healthier #foodchoices: cgiar.org/news-events/ne…
Our genebank houses globally important vegetables such as tomato, onion, peppers and cabbage as well as traditional vegetables. The goal is to collect, conserve and distribute the world’s vegetable germplasms for current and future use. Learn more: worldveg.org
The 6th APSA-WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium annual workshop was held at ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research in India on 9-10 May. Nearly 200 on-site and online participants joined this two-day event to talk about tomato, pepper, and cucurbit breeding. 🍅🌶🥒
Congrats Dr. Peter Hanson -- awarded Most Influential Plant Breeding Researcher by the Asia Pacific Seed Association! Pre-retirement from @WorldVeg, he developed heat tolerant & disease resistant🍅, that led to 253 improved lines used in 51+ countries. bit.ly/3Nefhcm
Proponents of degrowth have long argued that economic growth is detrimental to the environment. Now, scientists find that curbing growth alone would not make our food system sustainable -- but changing what we eat and putting a price on carbon would. bit.ly/39WADNa
Join Dr. Jody Harris at the virtual lecture series on Global and National Perspectives on Food System and Human Nutrition. She will share insights and recommendations on promoting safe, nutritious, and sustainable consumption. 20 May, 1-2:30pm (GMT+7) bit.ly/37QqQYu
En visite au #Benin, le DG du @go_vegetables a été reçu en audience ce 22 avril au #MAEP par l'autorité des lieux. Occasion pour ce dernier de discuter avec la SG dudit ministère des politiques à adopter pour améliorer les performances du Bénin dans le secteur agricole #ODDTV
Win-wins and trade-offs! "Fruit and vegetable #biodiversity for nutritionally diverse #diets: Challenges, opportunities, and knowledge gaps" 👉Read @go_vegetables paper by our #FoodSystems expert @justjody23 and Genebank manager @mvanzonneveld sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Journal_GFS
🔥 New paper in @Journal_GFS! Vegetable #agrobiodiversity and #nutrition are linked, with win-wins and trade-offs for policy and action. Read our #PlanetaryHealth paper open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @go_vegetables @FoodSystems
"A study suggests that if half of all agriculture subsidies worldwide were repurposed to support the growing of foods that benefit human health, it could increase the cultivation of fruits and vegetables by as much as 20%" This study: nature.com/articles/s4146… @go_vegetables
🔥 New paper in @Journal_GFS! Vegetable #agrobiodiversity and #nutrition are linked, with win-wins and trade-offs for policy and action. Read our #PlanetaryHealth paper open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @go_vegetables @FoodSystems
Asian food systems beyond Covid-19 - a key regional event @kasetsart_ku on May 19-20. Join us! Link below: are.eco.ku.ac.th/2019/?page_id=….
"Across the world, strategic seed banks keep safe seeds that could replenish agriculture after a cataclysm. But they aren't just for a worst-case scenario." @BBC_Future DYK @go_vegetables manages the world's largest public vegetable genebank to contribute to such global efforts?
If you want to know the evolutionary history of the chili pepper, or how to breed a climate change-proof chickpea, seed banks provide an intriguing dataset to draw on. bbc.com/future/article…
Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday - such important work @go_vegetables @ICRISAT @CIMMYT @irri and all genebanks around the globe bbc.com/future/article…
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