Job
Vacancies at The World Vegetable Center
Click the links below to see the
available positions and full descriptions on how to apply
- 1. Research-Associate-Impact-Evaluation-Arusha-Tanzania
- 2. Coordinator-Legume-Agronomist-Arusha-Tanzania
Founded
in 1971 as the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) with a
focus on tropical Asia, today the work of the World Vegetable Center spans the
globe. Headquartered in Taiwan, with regional bases in West and Central Africa,
Eastern and Southern Africa, East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, West and
Central Asia and Oceania, the Center has 44 international scientists and 300
national scientists and support staff dedicated to the mission of alleviating
poverty and malnutrition through the increased production and consumption of
nutritious, health-promoting vegetables.
Vegetables
are our most important source of the micronutrients, fiber, vitamins and
minerals essential for a balanced and healthy diet.
They are
also a major source of cash income for smallholder farmers. But in most
countries of the world, production is too low to provide their populations with
even the minimum intake required for good health. Diets in many developing
countries are commonly overloaded with more accessible carbohydrates and fats
resulting in increasing global rates of obesity. Contamination from microbial
sources and pesticides also reduces the safety of many vegetables in developing
countries and high postharvest losses further reduce the availability of the
relatively little that is grown.
For 40
years the World Vegetable Center has been the world’s leading international
center focused on vegetable research and development. We maintain the world’s
largest public sector vegetable genebank, with a focus on hardy traditional
vegetables important as food for the poor as well as wild relatives of common
vegetables. Our improved varieties are planted on millions of hectares around
the world and our production and postharvest technologies have made major
improvements in smallholder incomes.
The
Center seeks to overcome malnutrition and poverty and facilitate good health
for both the rural and urban poor by increasing the production, quality,
consumption and profitability of nutritious and health-promoting vegetables. By
promoting crop diversity and better balanced diets, we can help to reduce
obesity and associated health problems. Through the dissemination of good
agricultural practices and effective postharvest value-addition and marketing
mechanisms, the Center fosters opportunities for increasing employment and
incomes for small-scale farmers, landless laborers and communities. Although
our work of 40 years is by no means complete, it does represent a major step
forward in bringing prosperity to the poor and health for all.