M S Swaminathan Research Foundation's Biodiversity Programme was started in the year 1990 with the goal of recognizing the importance of Biodiversity with a commitment to achieve the major objectives laid in relevant conventions like Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Biodiversity Programme aims at concurrently optimizing conservation and livelihoods with an explicit emphasis on poverty reduction, social and gender justice of the rural and tribal poor. The focal sectors chosen for biodiversity conservation and action are Agro-biodiversity, the chief source of livelihood sustenance to majority of people, particularly the tribal communities living in hilly regions and Endangered Plant Species of the Western Ghats a global 'biodiversity hotspot'. >>more

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