The name of Professor M.S. Swaminathan has been closely associated with the efforts to increase agricultural production and food security for well over 50 years. Professor Swaminathan is widely recognised as the main architect of India's Green Revolution and has played an unparalleled role in India's policy making on food and agriculture for decades. Together with the late Professor Norman Borlaug, Professor Swaminathan is rightly considered one of the pioneering leading lights in the field of food and agriculture worldwide.