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The centre promotes Eco-technologies to concurrently reduce the poverty and improve the natural resource base. The main pathways are enhancing agriculture productivity, conserving natural resources, building resilience and collective action at the field level. The interventions to enhance agriculture production and augmenting natural resources are complementing each other in addressing the issues of livelihoods and natural resource use. In the process, it strives to address the issues related to barriers in technology adoption, enhance the asset endowments and improve the market access. It strives to achieve sustainable development in agriculture through nurturing socio-economical dimensions in technology adoption and innovation as well as institutionalisation through social enterprise approach. The key research and developmental interventions are focussing on;
Agriculture – Sustainable Development
Water: Scientific management of groundwater resources
Soil: Restoring Soil health and fertility status
Institutional innovations to improve small-holder competitiveness
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
3rd Cross Street, Institutional Area, Taramani
Chennai 600 113, India
Tel: +91 (44) 22541229, +91 (44) 22541698