From farmer to biodiversity expert, Cary Fowler, helps to manage the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. Some call this site The Doomsday Vault, due to the fact that it is "nothing less than a backup of the world's biological diversity in a horticultural world fast becoming homogenous in the wake of a flood of genetically identical GMOs." In this
TED talk he shares with us critical information about how biodiversity can save agriculture in a warming world.
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