The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
World Food Programme report says India tops world hunger chart The number of hungry people in India far outstrips those that live in any other country in the world, says the UN World Food Programme (WFP) report prepared jointly with the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation. Coming down heavily on …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form three high-level committees to implement the Idukki package, recommended by the M.S. Swaminathan Commission, to rejuvenate agriculture in Idukki district. Briefing the media on the Cabinet decisions, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said that he would chair the Idukki Aishwarya Committee …
New Delhi: The latest report of the Food Insecurity Situation in Rural India has revealed that while the stunting in children, access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities have improved, the prevalence of anaemia has worsened in rural India. The report, first prepared by the M S Swaminathan …
ALAPPUZHA: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that the State government will seek help from the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation to prepare project reports for implementing the Kuttanad Package. Speaking to presspersons here at the Agriculture Industrial Exhibition on Sunday, the Minister said the government would hold a meeting with …
Gargi Parsai, NEW DELHI: Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday differed on the approach to strategising adaptation to climate change, at an international conference here. The meet,
CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said. Outlining his strategies, Prof. Swaminathan said it …
IN RECOGNITION: P.C. Alexander, former Governor of Maharashtra, presenting the Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for Environmental Protection to B. Muthuraman, managing director, Tata Steel, at a function in Chennai on Tuesday. (From right) M.S. Swaminathan, chairman, MSSRF, and Kumar Asirvatham, president, Rotary Club of Madras East, are in the picture. …
Chennai FARMERS and panchayat representatives from Namakkal on Wednesday underwent a training programme at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) on the Biological Diversity Act and Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Rights Act 2001. The programme was aimed at educating farmers and community leaders about the two Central …
COMMUNITY leadership at its grassroots level have a major role to play in the Climate Risk Management Act 2008, drafted by the Climate Change Department of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. Talking to journalists here on Monday professor Swaminathan , said the draft model act ("draft for consideration, adaptation and possible …
Open Forum, the NGO which jointly organised Saturday's seminar on inflation with the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), describes itself as a "development organisation'. As per its credentials, "Open Forum works towards use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) for promoting sustainable development and human rights, in India and in …
It's a significant budget in India's agricultural history because it addresses some of the key issues facing our small and marginal farmers today. So far, we had an uncoordinated and piecemeal approach to this big problem, but P Chidambaram has addressed it in a holistic manner now. For example, the …
Scientists of the Chennia-Tamil Nadu based M S Swaminathan Research Foundation identified 101 edible wild greens. Not all are consumed regularly. The frequently eaten leaves: Ponnamkanni (Alternanthera sessilis) , mullencheera (Amaranths spinosus) , kuppacheera (Amaranths virdis) , mudungachappu (Solan nigrum), maracheera (Emberia tsjeriam-cottam, eaten only by the Kattunaikkas). Leaves eaten …
Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme …
