# One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2009
- Speaker: Cary Fowler
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_protecting_the_future_of_food)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vast treasury buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop seeds ... for whatever tomorrow may bring.

## Lectures

1. [One seed at a time, protecting the future of food](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_protecting_the_future_of_food/531287b3b71f), 17 min (TED's player)