Mssrf Thirty Years

International Consultation on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and

Strengthening Science for Climate Resilience

August 7-9, 2019

“A Pro-poor, Pro-nature and Pro-women orientation to technology development and dissemination is
essential for achieving the goals of food and health for all”
– Prof M S Swaminathan

Inauguration of the MSSRF30 Conference

Side events at the MSSRF30 Conference

Plenary session of the MSSRF30 Conference

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Climate Change and Coastal Zone Management

Sustainable Livelihood, Nutrition and Health Security

Biodiversity Mainstreaming for Sustainable Agriculture & Climate Resilience

Restoring Mangroves, Rebuilding Livelihoods

The Integrated Mangrove Restoration Programme along the Coromandel Coast of India has an impact in the restoration of over 3000 ha of degraded mangrove wetlands.

Promoting Fish for All, and Fish for Ever

The post tsunami needs and vulnerabilities of the coastal communities of Tamil Nadu paved way for MSSRF to establish an exclusive training centre – Fish for All Centre.

Mobile App to save lives and livelihoods of small scale fishers

The Fisher Friend Mobile App (FFMA) is a decision support facility to fishers to receive information in the vernacular language on ocean state forecast and potential fishing zone.

On-farm conservation of coastal rice based farming systems

Soil salinity is one of the main problems in coastal agriculture which is now further aggravated by rising sea level as well as the reduction in fresh water flow and rainfall,

Global Recognition for the Below Sea level Rice Cultivation

MSSRF’s effort since 2007 resulted in FAO recognition of Kuttanad farming systems that practice below sea level rice cultivation.

Recognizing Farmers’ Varieties

The farming communities of Wayanad cultivate diverse varieties of native fruits and vegetables which are resilient to local climatic variations

Globally Important Tribal Agricultural Heritage Site

The traditional knowledge of the people on plant genetic resources including medicinal plants (nearly 1200 species) and wild food species

Farmer Controlled Value Chain for Millets

About 2300 families (about 1500 in Kolli Hills and about 800 families in Jeypore) of tribal farmers have been involved in millet cultivation

Agro-forestry with Small Orchards

MSSRF demonstrated the site-specific model of small orchards with selected fruit trees among 1000 farmers of Kolli hills.

M. S. Swaminathan Botanical Garden for Saving Rare, Endemic and Threatened Plant Diversity

MSSRF’s work on Biodiversity in Kerala has resulted in collection and conservation of many endangered plant species and little-known species

Planted over 100,000 Seedlings of RET Plant Species

The project led to the establishment of a conservation garden with 125 orchid species, 30 fern species, 156 endemic tree species and 60 accessions..

Many New Species of Vascular Plants Described

MSSRF team has identified 15 new species of flowering plants from the forests of Wayanad and other parts of Kerala, since the ..

Conserving Wild Food for Nutrition

MSSRF’s study on wild edible species and marginal fruits and vegetables during 2000-2010 showed Wayanad district exists with about 100 edible roots..

Understanding the Molecular and Morphological Mechanism of Saline Tolerance in Rice

Coastal rice (O. sativa) landraces that have adaptively evolved in different ecological niches offer a unique opportunity to dissect ..

Beneficial Microbes to Enhance Soil Fertility and Crop Productivity

MSSRF has been involved in identification of potential strains, exploring its unique properties in soil health management..

Understanding the Abiotic Stress Tolerance Pathways for Equipping Crop Species to Overcome Stress

The Bioinformatics tools provide insights to know about the physiological and molecular mechanisms in response to..

Therapeutic Compounds from Lichen Cultures

The study on lichen species and its ecology helped to prove that the use lichen species composition and density as a potential indicator to assess ..

Promoting Farming Systems for Nutrition

FSN is a concept to mainstream the nutrition dimension in the design of the farming system to address prevailing nutrition deficiencies..

Community Hunger Fighters

The Community Hunger Fighters Programme is an action, reflection education model wherein communities are empowered to move ..

Mass Multiplication of Beneficial Microbes to Agriculture as Ecoenterprises

In spite of several products, use of microbial and insect species in pest management and soil fertility processes assumes greater..

Promoting Navara- A ‘2500 years old’ Medicinal Rice

Navara is a medicinal rice variety known in cultivation only in the state of Kerala. Documents show that it has been under cultivation in Kerala..

Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana: Empowering women farmers

MSSRF started work with widows of farmers who had committed suicide in Vidarbha, Maharshtra in 2006 to promote sustainable agriculture..

Plant Clinics for Better Plant Health

Plant Clinic is an innovative model to provide plant health diagnostic services to men and women farmers.

Rice Bio-Park: A Pathway to use the Rice Biomass Adopting Circular Economy

MSSRF in partnership with the Department of Agricultural Research, Yenzin, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar has established a Rice Biopark at Nay Pyi Taw.

Women Participation in Dairy Value Chain

Small holder women farmers face gender based constraints at micro level (individual, household and community) and meso-level..

Alternate Seed Systems in Pulses

The Farmer Producer Organizations are emerging as seed producers and distributors for the locally suitable varieties.

Climate Information Services for Effective Risk Management

Advances in forecast development at finer spatial and time scales as well as communication modes offer greater scope to reduce such risks in farming.

Farmer Collectives for Small Holders’ Competitiveness

MSSRF has been adopting a collectives approach to promote small farmers competitiveness in input and output marketing services..

Grameen Gyan Abhiyan for Bridging the Knowledge Divide

Information Village model for Knowledge Empowerment of marginalised sections of the community was demonstrated in early 2000 ..

Transforming Public Libraries as Life-long Knowledge Learning Centres

MSSRF spearheads the repositioning of public libraries across India and South Asia as Lifelong Knowledge Learning Centres..

International Consultation on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Strengthening Science for Climate Resilience