Cary Fowler

Avoiding a Global Food Fight

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Crop-Diversity, Climate Change, Global Warming, Agriculture, Food Security, Cary Fowler, Green News
Cary Fowler

There is a high correlation between temperature variation and the number of wars. The failure to take easy steps to adapt agriculture to climate change is a failure to react to an avoidable threat.

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The Second Siege: Saving Seeds Revisited

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Pavlovsk, Cary-Fowler, Seeds, Nazi Seige of Leningrad Anniversary, Genebank, Pavlovsk-Destruction, Pavlovsk Station, Dmitry Medvedev, Crop-Diversity, Nazis, Organic Food, Activism, Medvedev, Nazi-Seige-of-Leningrad-Anniversary, Environment, Pavlovsk-Experimental-Station, Food, World War II, Cary Fowler, Global-Crop-Diversity-Trust, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Green News
Cary Fowler

Never before in history will so much crop diversity be lost intentionally and avoidably as the day the bull-dozers roar into Pavlovsk Station.

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Plants Do It Too: The Importance of Plant Breeding

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crop-Diversity, Wheat, Plant Genetics, Crops, Breeding, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Plants, Climate Change, Global-Crop-Diversity-Trust, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, Cary Fowler, Food News
Cary Fowler

When people shop at the local market and bring home different varieties of apples and peaches and tomatoes, they don't spend too much time thinking about the sex that lay behind those fruits or the development of the different varieties.

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Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Ipcc, Sustainable Food, Crops, Agriculture, Naure, International Year of Biodiversity, Plants, Crop, Crop-Diversity, Species, Biodiversity, Food, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, World News
Cary Fowler

When we think about biodiversity, we rarely think about food. But the diversity within crops is notable agronomically and culturally. And like other biodiversity, it's endangered.

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