M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

Twenty-one years ago, MSSRF started its work in a rented building in Kotturpuram, Chennai, with the following major objectives:
• To promote strategic research involving genetic engineering technologies for meeting the challenges arising from potential adverse changes in temperature, precipitation and sea level caused by global climate change
• To commence anticipatory research to enhance the coping capacity of coastal communities to the problems arising from a rise in sea level • To initiate participatory research with tribal and rural families and coastal communities in the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biological diversity
• To link ecological and livelihood security in a mutually reinforcing manner in rural India
• To bridge the urban-rural technology divide, particularly in the area of information communication technology