AVRDC is Fostering a Revolution in Diets for Good Health!

Laboratory complex

AVRDC is an intergovernmental agency founded in 1971 and is chiefly funded by Taiwan, USAID, DFID, GIZ, ACIAR, APSA and its Founding Countries – Japan, S. Korea, Thailand, Philippines. Budget

$15m.

AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center

HQ ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

Management Team: Hughes, Chang, Nagaraj, Olatifede

Hotel

HQ inTaiwan

NigerFiji and Solomons

Laos

Tanzania

India

Madagascar Thailand

Mali India

Cameroon

Project activities with partners in many other countries: Collaboration with ICIPE, C for F, ICBA, CABI

AVRDC’s global locations – plus Indonesia 50 IRS staff – 300 NRS

Dubai UAECameroon Thailand

AVRDC is a highly decentralized center

Uzbekistan

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Insufficiency of vegetables in the diet and the impact on child mortality and malnutrition

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Vegetable consumption (g/day/person) 172

Under-five mortality rate, 2006 (1/1000) 29

Underweight (%) 28

Health status indicator:Children under 5 mortality rate

Nutrition status indicator:Children under 5 underweight

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Recommended nutrient intakes (RNI) and % RNI contributed from 100 gram of plant food

Protein Vitamin A Iron Folate Zinc Calcium Vitamin E

RNI for pregnant women (1st trimester)

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Rice 0 0 1 2 4 0 0Cassava (root) 2 0 1 5 3 2 0Millet 6 0 2 14 8 0 0

Meat (chicken) 37 0 3 1 14 1 3

Mungbean 40 2 22 104 24 13 7Vegetable soybean 18 2 13 28 13 4 78

Cabbage 3 1 1 10 2 4 2

Tomato 2 18 1 3 2 1 7Slippery cabbage 6 106 5 30-177 11 18 58Moringa leaves 7 146 11 49 5 10 65Amaranth 9 160 6 31 6 32 17Jute mallow 10 198 12 21 0 36 36Nightshade 8 101 13 10 9 21 28Vegetable cowpea leaves` 8 193 6 27 3 54 101

RNI source: FAO/WHO 2004; RNI for iron with low bioavailability; RNI for zinc with medium bioavailabilityNutrient data source: USDA nutrient database, AVRDC IV nutrient data, and literature

Indigenous nutrient-dense vegetables can overcome malnutrition

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High value/ high nutrient crops -Breeding for nutrition:

• Tomato: high beta tomato adaptation trials• Tomato: search for new genes to improve carotenoids and flavonoids• Pepper: high carotenoid paprika for tropics• Pumpkin: characterization of varieties for carotenoids • Bitter gourd: evaluation of varieties for vitamins and anti-diabetic

activities

High beta, golden tomato

High flavonoid tomato High carotenoid, low pungency pepper

High vitamins and anti-diabetic bitter gourd

High carotenoid

pumpkin

The world’s largest public sector collection of vegetable germplasm

No. of accessions 57,937No. of species 430No. of countries of origin 155

We now need: Not a Green Revolution, but a Revolution with Greens!

We now need: Not a Green Revolution, but a Revolution with Greens!

Collaboration with Crops for the Future and the Diversity for Development Alliance

New genetic variation for drought & salt tolerance and grafting combinations in tomato and eggplant

Drought tolerantSusceptible

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Grafting tomato scions on to egg plant rootstocks prevents disease and flooding damage

Collaboration with ICBAOn salinity tolerance

Collaborating with ICIPE and CABI on IPM and Collaborating with ICIPE and CABI on IPM and IDMIDM

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Plantwise – Lose Less, Feed More

AVRDC helps through partners in disaster relief in Thailand, India, Taiwan, Haiti,

Indonesia and Sri Lanka

Seed bulking and prepositioning in storage before disasters