Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. is an American agriculturalist and the former executive director of the Crop Trust, currently serving as U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security.
Fowler in 2007
Cary Fowler in front of the Seed Vault being built on Spitsbergen, showing the kind of containers used for the seeds.
The Crop Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is an international nonprofit organization with a secretariat in Bonn, Germany. Its mission is to conserve and make available the world's crop diversity for food security.
The Crop Trust provides financial support for key international and national genebanks that hold collections of diversity for food crops such as this genebank at ICRISAT in India.
The Crop Trust provides most of the annual operating costs for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault