Cary Fowler
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Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. is an American agriculturalist who served as the U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security from 2022 to 2025. He was previously executive director of the Crop Tru
Official portrait, 2022
Cary Fowler in front of the Seed Vault being built on Spitsbergen, showing the kind of containers used for the seeds.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the Earth's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long
Cary Fowler
…trust's mandate is to ensure "the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide." Fowler is known as the father of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which currently houses samples of more than one million distinct crop varieties. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the vault as an…
Svalbard Global Seed Vault February 2025
Seed storage containers on metal shelving inside the vault
Seeds have been stored in aluminium bags since 2004.