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| Coastal Systems Research |
| Biodiversity |
| Biotechnology |
| Ecotechnology |
| Food Security |
| Information, Education and Communication |
| REGIONAL CENTRES |
| CAbC, Wayanad |
| Biocentre and VRC, Puducherry |
| Biju Patnaik Medicinal Plants Garden & Research Centre, Jeypore |
| Fish for All Centre, Kavripoompattinam |
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is a non-profit research organization and was established in 1988. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has all along been developing and following a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-sustainable on-farm and non-farm livelihoods through appropriate ecotechnology and knowledge empowerment. More ...
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is carrying out research and development
in six major thematic areas such as Coastal Systems Research (restoration of
mangrove forests, alternative livelihood for fishing community, etc.),
Biotechnology (developing salt and drought tolerant transgenic rice
varieties, testing availability of oil content in different biofuel crops /
plants, lichens diversity, etc.), Biodiversity (documenting endangered and
medicinal plants, providing necessary training to village community to
maintain biodiversity register, conserving genes and seeds through ex-situ
community based gene bank, and in-situ on-farm conservation etc.),
Ecotechnology (setting
up bio-villages – biovillage paradigm involves sustainable management of
natural resources and developing sustainable on-farm and non-farm
livelihoods as eco-enterprises managed by self-help groups), Food Security
(promoting community - based grain bank, developing urban and rural food
insecurity atlases to understand the factors involved in food insecurity,
providing livelihood training to women farmers particularly in the “farmers’
suicide hotspots”, etc.) and Information, Education and Communication
(addressing the issues related to sustainable development using different
information communication technology tools) for knowledge empowerment of the
resource-poor, largely illiterate and unskilled rural women and men.
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Chairman's Page |
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Executive Director's Page |
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Webmail |
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MSSRF in Media |
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Opportunity for youth to work with MSSRF under SBI |
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VRC/VKC Content Repository |
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Grameen Gyan Abhiyan (GGA) |
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Multimedia Resource Centre (MRC) |
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Community Gene Bank |
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MSSRF-IGNOU Community College |
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Regional Training on Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds Policies, Conservation and Use, October 31 - November 2011. Organized by Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen UR. The Nethelands and M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation , Chennai (more...) |
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TRAINING PROGRAMME |
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| Apply for fellowships for the training programme Contemporary approaches to genetic resources conservation and use in the context of climate change, for either of the modules: ‘Genetic resource policy and management strategies’ or ‘Integrated seed sector development’, in the Netherlands (16 April – 4 May 2012) (Details ...). | |
Deadline for fellowship application to the Netherlands Fellowship Programme is: October 1st, 2011 through Fellowships for Short Courses on Scholarship Online (SOL).Please take note of the changed procedure (you do not have to visit the Netherlands Embassy anymore for your application), which is now done online. We strongly suggest you to apply in time. The online registration may take some time; please consult the CDI application procedures, the SOL user manual for applicants and visit the FAQs section. Pl. apply with in the deadline specified. |
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