Wow.

And so it was in that s- '70s to '90s period that the Rockefeller Foundation got involved and gave a bunch of money to get it started.

They formed partnerships with governments, and ended up, it's, the running of it ended up being dumped, in a sense, onto the United Nations, because nobody wanted...

It wasn't a business.

It wasn't gonna be profitable, and it was hard, it was a hard, complicated thing, and the original money wasn't going to pay for it all the way through.

And they ended up forming this system together of saving the world's crop diversity, and they did it around specific crops, especially the ones that were the most important for industrial agriculture, rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, and so on.

And so each of those then were put in a different country around the world as a way of spreading this out, but also made a lot of sense.

In a few years, he was running it?