Cary Fowler (born 1950) is the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, based in Rome. Previously, Fowler was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Fowler received the Right Livelihood Award with Pat Mooney in 1985 for their work in agriculture and the preservation of biodiversity. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Global Crop Diversity Trust is a foundation based in Italy. ... Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is presented annually in the building of the Swedish Parliament, usually on December 9, to honour those working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the... Pat Mooney 2005 Patrick (Pat) Roy Mooney (born 1947) received the Right Livelihood Award in 1985 and is the 1998 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in agriculture and the preservation of biodiversity. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variation of taxonomic life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. ...
Fowler and Mooney point out that not only are genetic materials under-utilized in the face of a diseases epidemic, chances of an epidemic are actually increased by using only a very narrow variety of crops.
All of the soybeans grown in the U.S. come from six plants brought from China; all sorghum in the U.S. can be traced back to one plant; and even all American coffee can probably be traced back to one tree in the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens.
Fowler and Mooney point out that the present genetic uniformity of many crops may be the downfall of our food production system.
CaryFowler was born in 1950 and studied at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and Uppsala University in Sweden.
From 1978, Fowler and Mooney joined forces with the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), a small, non-profit organisation which focuses on the socio-economic impact of new technologies on rural societies.
In 1993, the FAO hired Fowler to help draft their Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources; he then stayed on to organise the international conference in Leipzig, Germany, in 1996, at which the Global Plan was adopted.
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