Bernard Lwesya

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

Join WorldVeg at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal 🇸🇳 #AFSForum2025

We’re showcasing how young #agripreneurs are transforming food systems through #agroecology - for people and planet.
📅 3 Sept | 12:00–13:30 | Hall A
🥬 How Young Agripreneurs are Leading Food Systems #Transformation

⏲️ 4 Sept | 8:30–10:00 | Knowledge Hub – Stage 2
🌱 Food #Systems Transformation through Agroecology

@SNVworld @IKEA @RockefellerFdn @SwissDevCoop @giz_gmbh @biovision_org @BiovIntCIAT_eng

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

Join us at #Nanenane 2025, Arusha grounds.
Visit the @WorldVeg_ESA booth to learn more about #Vegetables, #Genebank, #Spices, and many more.

#Nanenane2025 #KilimoNiBiashara

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

"We need to do more to make seeds #accessible and #affordable."
#Veggies4PeopleandPlanetLeaning

@RugalemaG

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

📢 Day 2 of #Veggies4PlanetAndPeople Learning Workshop is underway!
✅ Which agroecological practices boost #productivity & #sustainability?
✅ What barriers hold #farmers back?
✅ How can #market & #policy factors help scale #agroecology?

#Veggies4PeopleandPlanetLeaning

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

#Tengeru, Arusha. Our team was honored to host #British High Commissioner to #Tanzania Marianne Young at the World Vegetable Center on February 3, 2025.
@MYoungFCDO @NdunguruColleta @UKinTanzania @WorldVegCenter

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

#DarEsSalaam. What would a telecommunication #technology company #Vodacom Tanzania Plc, a foundation Vodacom Tanzania Foundation, and a vegetable research and development institution #WorldVeg have in common?
@RugalemaG @AnnetteKanora @nkamando

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

#Dodoma On Friday, 13th Dec 2024, World Vegetable Center (#WorldVeg), Associate Director General for Africa, Gabriel Rugalema, and Country Program Manager Colleta Ndunguru paid a courtesy call to Hon. Hussein Bashe, Minister of Agriculture of the United Republic of Tanzania

[World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) @WorldVegCenter]

CNBC Africa's Tabitha Muthoni recently sat down with Gabriel Rugalema, Associate Director General - Africa at WorldVeg, to discuss how rescuing & preserving Africa’s endangered vegetable species can help secure food diversity & nutrition for the future.

https://t.co/ius6wYdkxs

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

Happy #WorldFoodDay2024

That #safe and #quality food should be accessible and affordable to all.
#WorldFoodDay

[World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) @WorldVegCenter]

Excited to launch the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan at #AGRF2024 in Kigali
With @CropTrust, @_AfricanUnion,& @AUDANEPAD, we're securing Africa’s nutritional future by conserving critical but rapidly disappearing vegetable crops.

Read the plan https://t.co/0asNr5qYfL

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

We are very happy to announce that Colleta Ndunguru joined the World Vegetable Center on 15 July 2024, as Country Program Manager for Tanzania based at our Eastern and Southern Africa office in Arusha. Join us to welcome Colleta!
https://t.co/I7jcKcYuCK

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

We are excited to engage with the President of Zanzibar Hon.@DrHmwinyi when visited our booth at Zanzibar Tourism Summit. He interacted with AID-I project farmers, women and youth as they showcased their products from vegitable and spice!
#ZanzibarTourism
@USAID
@CIMMYT

[WorldVeg_ESA @WorldVeg_ESA]

🌱WorldVeg meets with ILRI's Director General's Representative to Ethiopia to explore opportunities to enhance the vegetable sector by leveraging research for dietary diversity, promoting traditional foods, and scaling up vegetable production.
#AgriculturalDevelopment

[Njumali M kivuyo @MNjumali]

East Africa's persistent nutrition insecurity is by and large a problem of lack of micronutrients. Vegetables gives us a hedge. Let's work together to address this hidden hunger.
@WorldVegCenter
@RugalemaG
@The_EastAfrican
@FAOTanzania
@FAOEastAfrica

[Njumali M kivuyo @MNjumali]

We had a great day and a successful meeting with the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Tanzania @Wiebe_de_Boer and @ingrid_korving the Agricultural Counsellor for Kenya and Tanzania who visited @go_vegetables
@RugalemaGabriel
@TheoMutabingwa

[RugalemaGabriel @RugalemaG]

As we celebrate the #InternationalDayofEducation we @go_vegetables believe that we have a duty to boost access to science & technology to every school. Today we donated microscopes to a local sec school and took the pupils through the paces on veg pathology

[NLAgriTanzania @NLAgriTanzania]

The future is in the hands of the #youth. Thank you ⁦@go_vegetables⁩ for investing in youth through practical #trainings, #research on sustainable #horticulture production and looking for local solutions on #post-harvest losses.⁦@Wiebe_de_Boer⁩ ⁦@MNjumali⁩

[Njumali M kivuyo @MNjumali]

We @go_vegetables had three days of training programs on #vegetable & #GrainAmaranth production, #utilization, and value addition to #AmaranthTOTgroup. The training was well received and the group is ready to share the knowledge with society.
@RugalemaG
@BeatriceBanzi

[Njumali M kivuyo @MNjumali]

2/3 Earlier today we have dispatched 5,120 seed kits (comprising 56,320 seed samples) to Eswatini for the country's home flown school feeding programme
@go_vegetables
@RugalemaG
@SDanikou
@mvanzonneveld
@RujekoMM

[Njumali M kivuyo @MNjumali]

Promotion of healthy meals @go_vegetables through eating more vegetables and fruits at Sing'isi secondary school in Meru District of Arusha to help students cultivate healthy eating habits right from their youth
@RugalemaG
@go_vegetables