"Perhaps it matters little whether the international community……" — Cary Fowler
"Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it."
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Cary Fowler
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11 Quotes by Cary Fowler
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The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to…
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I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about…
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You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but…
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is…
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Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a…
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To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the…
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At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of…
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Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which…
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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In…
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It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to…
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