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Agriculturalist

Cary Fowler is a renowned agriculturalist born in 1949. He has made significant contributions to the field of global agricultural genetic resource conservation and sustainable agricultural development. Dr. Fowler has served as the director of the International Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and led various global projects, dedicated to protecting the world's agricultural diversity.

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“Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.”

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“Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.”

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“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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“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 varieties is you learn which Apple is good for which purpose. So I have a favorite apple for apple pie. It's called Bramley Seedling. It's a old British Apple. I blend a lot of these apples together that make apple cider every year. It's a great hobby, but it's, you know, it takes some time. And it can be frustrating when the Japanese beetles or the gypsy moths come.”

Together Purpose Variety Dramatic Frustrating Gypsy

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“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. Can fish play the piano?”

Knows Play Inspiration Past Motivation Growing Seasons Fishes Activism Piano Agriculture Adapted Hottest Hotter

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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 losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.”

Way Inspiration Motivation Lost Loses Talking Car Keys Diversity Losing Activism Dinosaurs Not Talking Car Keys

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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 it's very important diversity.”

Way Looks Important Eye Bears Diversity Seeds Activism Carrots Pandas

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“In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.”

Mean Games Diversity Survival Fewer Requirements Adaptation Peas Pandas

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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 scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.”

Source: Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity

“To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.”

People Mind Enough Bigs Creatures Diversity Fairs Species Forests Biodiversity

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“At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.”

Challenges Evolution Diversity Climate Climate Change Adaptation Crops

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Born: 1949
Known for: Agriculturalist
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