2024 World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin honored for creating global seed vault in Svalbard, Norway, safeguarding 6,000 crop varieties.
2024 World Food Prize laureates, Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, will be honored for their roles in creating the global seed vault designed to protect the world's agricultural diversity. The vault, located in Svalbard, Norway, safeguards over 6,000 varieties of crops and culturally important plants. Fowler, the U.S. special envoy for Global Food Security, and Hawtin, an agricultural scientist from the UK, will split a $500,000 award.
May 09, 2024
14 Articles