Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. (born 1949) is an American agriculturalist who served as the United States Special Envoy for Global Food Security from 2022 to 2025. He previously served as executive director of the Crop Trust and received the 2024 World Food Prize.
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Defining ContributionDriving force behind the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, safeguarding global crop diversity 1 In the Other Atlases
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Morgan Carrington "Cary" Fowler Jr. (born 1949) is an American agriculturalist who served as the United States Special Envoy for Global Food Security from 2022 to 2025.
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Fowler is known as the father of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which currently houses samples of more than one million distinct crop varieties.
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