Name: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
Uploaded: 2009-08-31T01:00:00Z
Duration: 16 min 48 s
Description: The wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vast treasury buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop seeds ... for whatever tomorrow may bring.

The wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vast treasury buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop seeds ... for whatever tomorrow may bring.

Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

Cary Fowler illuminates the silent crisis of crop diversity loss, championing the Svalbard Seed Vault as humanity's backup.

With 7,100 apple varieties down to 300, Fowler underscores the urgency in preserving agricultural diversity for future resilience.

Fowler's Svalbard Vault, safeguarding 425,000 seed samples, stands as a testament to global unity in protecting our food's future.