To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to biological material.… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity. — Cary Fowler Copy Share
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know.… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival. — Cary Fowler Copy Share
To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
Not all of them, but certainly there's some really, really dramatic differences among apples. And what you learn if you have that number of… — Cary Fowler Copy Share
