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☆ A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old
  + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Somini Sengupta | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Cary Fowler once helped build an Arctic vault to save the world’s great variety of crop seeds from extinction. Now, as the State Department’s global envoy for food security, he is trying to plant a new seed in U.S. foreign policy. The effort is still in its infancy, with a relatively tiny budget of $100 million. But at a time when climate shocks and rising costs are aggravating food insecurity and raising the risks of political instability, the stakes are high. Mr. Fowler’s boss, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the idea could be “genuinely revolutionary.”
Persons: Cary Fowler, Fowler, Fowler’s, Antony Blinken, ” Organizations: State, Economic Locations: Africa, Davos
☆ Russia’s war in Ukraine sparked a historic food crisis. It’s not over
  + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
“All the major causes of the food crisis are still with us — conflict, Covid, climate change, high fuel prices,” Cary Fowler, the US special envoy for global food security, told CNN. But high food prices mean that funding can’t go as far, and Russia’s war continues to generate volatility. “The Ukraine crisis has had this ongoing negative impact on world food prices and [added] even more volatility,” said Abby Maxman, CEO of Oxfam America. Russia “is not assisting in alleviating the food crisis in slowing down the grain inspections,” Fowler said. Oxfam’s Maxman, who traveled there in September, said disruptions to food supplies were obvious in markets.
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