Dr. M.S. Swaminathan established the M.S, Swaminathan Research Foundation in 1988, using the World Food Award and various other awards for his leadership role in India’s Green Revolution. Inspired by the Gandhian philosophy and chastened by the limitations of the green revolution, the MSSRF’s mission is the conservation and enhancement of natural resources, and generation of agricultural, rural and off farm employment with a particular emphasis on the poor and the women. The pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-woman mission of the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation has been far sighted in combining science and technology with practical problem solving approaches on the ground. Nationally its influence ranges from legislation and science and technology policy to impacts on the lives of the poor, and internationally through a variety of catalytic influences.

M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation