Cary Fowler

Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

ROME, ITALY (18 November 2009) -- Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture in the agreement could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the year

New study finds that sharing genetic resources key to adaptation to climate change in Africa

ROME, ITALY -- As rapidly rising temperatures in Africa threaten to scorch local varieties of maize and other food staples, the food security of many Africans will depend on farmers in one country gaining access to climatically suitable varieties now being cultivated in other African nations, and beyond, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Global Environmental Change.

One of history's biggest biological rescue efforts to save 100,000 crop varieties from extinction

Only two years after launching an ambitious effort to save endangered crop species, the Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today it is on track to save from extinction 100,000 different varieties of food crops from 46 countries.

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Cary Fowler

Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

New study finds that sharing genetic resources key to adaptation to climate change in Africa

One of history's biggest biological rescue efforts to save 100,000 crop varieties from extinction

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