… they all played an important role in the session on vegetable production within the rural-urban continuum, which not only offered insights into a lot of plant varieties, but also into a wide variety of topics from web based collaborative research between Thailand and Germany, via cauliflower cultivation in Dhaka to the cultivation of early Bambara groundnut for urban markets in Limpopo Province (South Africa). Mark Hoschek from the University Freiburg started of by presenting the VegGIS – A web-based collaborative research environment – and described a pilot application on vegetable production in greater Bangkok, Thailand. Over 40 people depended on the data in order to increase their understanding of interlinkages between producers, marketers and consumers. The second presentation focused on crop diversification in Joymondop village in Bangladesh (Dhaka). The change from cucumber to cauliflower and a more diversified cultivation was mainly influenced by infestation problems, but also by incentives such as better marketing facilities, higher production and resulting economic benefits. Moving from Bangladesh to Kenya, the changes and challenges of the Local Seed Systems (Vegetables and Legumes) in Western Kenya were presented by Laura Bender. The study found that the majority of the farmers interviewed were of the opinion that there was more seed and information exchange in the past compared to today, leading to the suggestion that strengthening traditional exchange systems should be more in the focus of the promotion of higher biodiversity. The fifth presentation argued for priority setting in the domestication of wild vegetables in order to improve food security in Makawanpur Central Nepal. 17 out of 89 vegetable species were identified in high ranks because of preferences in taste, sale, their use of all ethnic groups and their availability in all surveyed altitudes. Last but not least, Eastonce Gwata from the University of Venda, South Africa proved that elite early types of the Bambara Groundnut would be beneficial to the growers and end-users in the Limpopo Region, especially with regards to climate change.