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Science and Sustainable Food Security

Selected Papers of M S Swaminathan

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

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Science and Sustainable Food Security

Selected Papers of M S Swaminathan

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

This book provides a roadmap for achieving sustainable agricultural advance and food security in an era of climate change and global economic melt-down. The contents include a description of the paradigm shift under the leadership of the author, from a green to an ever-green revolution necessary for advancing productivity in perpetuity without ecological harm. Science and Sustainable Food Security shows many methods of linking ecological security with livelihood security, and provides a scientific basis for entering an era of biohappiness based on the sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity. Also, methods of adaptation to the impact of global warming are described. This book will prove in valuable to all interested in sustainable human security and happiness.

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9814282103

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In Search of Biohappiness

Biodiversity and Food, Health and Livelihood Security

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

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In Search of Biohappiness

Biodiversity and Food, Health and Livelihood Security

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

This book is intended to describe how an era of biohappiness, based on the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, can be launched. The book will deal with all aspects of conservation such as in-situ, ex-situ and community conservation. It will cover the conservation issues relating to mangroves and other coastal bioresources, whose importance will grow with the emerging possibility of sea level rise from global warming. The book will include concrete examples of how local tribal families have taken to the establishment of gene, seed, grain and water banks in villages, thus linking conservation, cultivation, consumption and commerce in a mutually reinforcing manner.

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9814329320

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50 Years of Green Revolution

An Anthology of Research Papers

By: M. S. Swaminathan

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50 Years of Green Revolution

An Anthology of Research Papers

By: M. S. Swaminathan

The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket. This transformation during the 1960s took just about 4 years. The yield increases achieved in wheat and then in rice which occurred in just about half decade is far in excess of the yield increases during the preceding 4000 years. This remarkable feat was achieved with the leadership of the author using the dwarf wheat types which had been produced by Norman Borlaug in Mexico. The research and development of green revolution of wheat and rice at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was led by the author along with his team of students and co-workers. He has published over 100 papers on green revolution and the ever-green revolution which is a refinement of the former. This book is a compilation of just about 40 of his numerous research papers, monographs and books published by him on this subject. The papers in this book bring out the scientific basis of the modification of the plant type so as to be responsive to exogenous addition of chemical fertilizers and irrigation. The ideal plant type enables capture of adequate sunlight and using the chemical fertilizers added to the soil, produce substantial photosynthetic starch. And because the plants have short and thick culm, they are able to withstand enormous amounts of grains in their ears. This indeed was the basis of breaking the yield barriers associated with native varieties. The book also brings out that green revolution had established the food security at the national level but not at the individual household levels of millions of resource-poor rural small and marginal farming, fishing and landless families. Further green revolution was commodity-centric and the manner of its practice led to environmental degradation and social inequities. This author realized as early as 1972 that system of agriculture in India should be designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. In pursuit of it, this author further designed an evergreen revolution with systems approach. What this means is providing concurrent attention to ecological foundations of agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural people. The book also brings out that green revolution was a team effort involving scientists, policy makers, administrators, farmers and students. This book is an outstanding example of green revolution providing a breathing space by putting the cereal grain production rate ahead of the population growth rate and then when food security has been adequately established, the system is changed to achieve productivity in perpetuity without causing environmental and social harm.

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9813200073

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Science and Sustainable Food Security

Selected Papers of M S Swaminathan

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

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Science and Sustainable Food Security

Selected Papers of M S Swaminathan

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

Section I. Food security and economic development - how science is applied to solve problems of poverty, drought and famine. 1. Key to third world prosperity / Swaminathan, M.S. 2. Changing nature of the food security challenge : implications for agricultural research and policy / Swaminathan, M.S. 3. Bridging the nutritional divide - building community centred nutrition security systems / Swaminathan, M.S. 4. Africa's rainbow revolution / Swaminathan, M.S. 5. Hunger in Africa : the link between unhealthy people and unhealthy soils / Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swarninathan, M.S. 6. Cutting world hunger in half / Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swaminathan, M.S. 7. Can science and technology feed the world in 2025? / Swarninathan, M.S. 8. Effects of climate change on food production / Parry, Martin L. and Swaminathan, M.S. 9. Sustainable food security in Africa : lessons from India's green revolution / Swaminathan, M.S. 10. Sustainable food and water security / Swaminathan, M.S. -- Section II. Science and food security - how science is used to generate efficient and optimal agricultural outputs. 11. Science and sustainable food security / Swaminathan, M.S. 12. Indian agriculture at the crossroads / Swaminathan, M.S. 13. Magnitude of hybrid vigor retained in double haploid lines of some heterotic rice hybrids / Bui Ba Bong and Swaminathan, M.S. 14. Development of monosomic series in an Indian wheat and isolation of a nullisomic lines / Swaminathan, M.S. [und weitere]. 15. Consanguineous marriages and the genetic load due to lethal genes in Kerala / Kumar, S., Pai, R.A. and Swaminathan, M.S. 16. The experimental manipulation of genes / Swaminathan, M.S. 17. Nature of polyploidy in some 48-chromosome species of the section Tuberarium Genus Solanum / Swaminathan, M.S. 18. Overcoming cross-incompatibility among some Mexican diploid species of solanum / Swaminathan, M.S. 19. Polyploidy and radiosensitivity / Swaminathan, M.S. and Natarajan, A.T. 20. Disomic and tetrosomic inheritance in a Solanum hybrid / Swaminathan, M.S. 21. The green revolution in Indian agriculture from an environmentally sound technology point of view / Swaminathan, M.S. 22. Science and shaping our agricultural future / Swaminathan, M.S. -- Section III. Food security and ecological balance - how the gains of green revolution are impacted by climate change, how science will be helpful in ensuring sustainable food security, green revolution to ever-green revolution - a roadmap. 23. An evergreen revolution / Swaminathan, M.S. 24. Agriculture and food systems / Swaminathan, M.S. 25. Managing extreme natural disasters in coastal areas / Kesavan, P.C. and Swaminathan M.S. 26. Ecological security - a prerequisite for food and livelihood security / Swaminathan, M.S. 27. Genetic conservation : microbes to Man. Presidential addres / Swaminathan, M.S. 28. Monsoon management in an era of climate change

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9814282111

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Remember Your Humanity

Pathway to Sustainable Food Security

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

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Remember Your Humanity

Pathway to Sustainable Food Security

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In Search of Biohappiness

Biodiversity and Food, Health and Livelihood Security

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

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Biodiversity and Food, Health and Livelihood Security

By: Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

This book describes how an era of biohappiness, based on the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, can be launched. It deals with all aspects of conservation such as in situ, ex situ and community conservation, and also covers co

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Science and Sustainable Food Security

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In Search of Biohappiness

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50 Years of Green Revolution

50 Years of Green Revolution

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Science and Sustainable Food Security

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