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GlobalHort has one vision, one objective, four core activities:

• Promoting horticultural research for development
• A program of grants for horticultural research
• A knowledge hub for dispersed cooperating horticultural communities
• Facilitating horticultural training, education and capacity building

News Feature

A Thailand Forum on Public-Private Partnership to Enable Modern Techniques in Tropical Asia Vegetable Production

Following the International Symposium on Socio-Economic Impact of Modern Technique in Vegetable Production in Tropical Asia (Chiang Mai, 3-6 Feb. 2008), recommendations issued from there were proposed and discussed amongst a panel of public and private actors for improving innovation transfer and adoption by the tropical Asian vegetable producers. 

Much has been talked about breeding, seed production and marketing, but choosing improved varieties is not the single technology needed to increase producers’ benefit.  A technical package of good and simple practices should accompany the genetic improvement... read more