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AVRDC is Fostering a Revolution in Diets for Good Health!

AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center. AVRDC is Fostering a Revolution in Diets for Good Health!. HQ ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. Management Team: Hughes, Chang, Nagaraj, Olatifede.

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AVRDC is Fostering a Revolution in Diets for Good Health!

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  1. AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center AVRDC is Fostering a Revolution in Diets for Good Health! HQ ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Management Team: Hughes, Chang, Nagaraj, Olatifede 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. Laboratory complex Hotel

  2. AVRDC is a highly decentralized center Tanzania HQ in Taiwan Uzbekistan AVRDC’s global locations – plus Indonesia 50 IRS staff – 300 NRS Thailand Thailand Dubai UAE Cameroon Madagascar Cameroon Laos Project activities with partners in many other countries: Collaboration with ICIPE, C for F, ICBA, CABI Fiji and Solomons Niger India India Mali

  3. Insufficiency of vegetables in the diet and the impact on child mortality and malnutrition Nutrition status indicator: Children under 5 underweight Health status indicator: Children under 5 mortality rate Green dot: Philippines

  4. Recommended nutrient intakes (RNI) and % RNI contributed from 100 gram of plant food RNI source: FAO/WHO 2004; RNI for iron with low bioavailability; RNI for zinc with medium bioavailability Nutrient data source: USDA nutrient database, AVRDC IV nutrient data, and literature

  5. Indigenous nutrient-dense vegetables can overcome malnutrition

  6. 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 carotenoid pumpkin High beta, golden tomato High vitamins and anti-diabetic bitter gourd High carotenoid, low pungency pepper High flavonoid tomato

  7. Collaboration with Crops for the Future and the Diversity for Development Alliance We now need: Not a Green Revolution, but a Revolution with Greens! No. of accessions 57,937 No. of species 430 No. of countries of origin 155 The world’s largest public sector collection of vegetable germplasm

  8. New genetic variation for drought & salt tolerance and grafting combinations in tomato and eggplant Drought tolerant Susceptible Collaboration with ICBA On salinity tolerance 0 50 mM 100 mM 200 mM Grafting tomato scions on to egg plant rootstocks prevents disease and flooding damage

  9. M a b c d e f g h i j k l m Collaborating with ICIPE and CABI on IPM and IDM Plantwise – Lose Less, Feed More

  10. AVRDC helps through partners in disaster relief in Thailand, India, Taiwan, Haiti, Indonesia and Sri Lanka Seed bulking and prepositioning in storage before disasters

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