Cary Fowler: A global backup of the world’s agricultural biodiversity
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8:35PM
Alphachimp in Pop!Tech 2007, Sustaining Tomorrow, agriculture, sustainability

Agricultural impresario Cary Fowler is kind of a latter-day Superman: his mission is to protect life on Earth, and he even operates out of an arctic fortress.

While Dr. Fowler can’t fly or leap tall buildings, his work has captured the world’s imagination, and he’s safeguarding mankind’s future with a practical solution: seeds.

Read about CIAT’s shipment of seeds to the Svalbard Arctic Seed Vault, the global backup of the world’s agricultural biodiversity. See video

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