December 7, 2017: The Government has approved a National Nutrition Mission with a three-year budget of Rs. 9,000 crore. This is the government’s response to the widespread malnutrition resulting in

Nick Grandstaff,the World Food Prize intern who interned at MSSRF, Namakkal in July-August 2016, has won the prestigious John Crystal Award for his work.

Some years ago in a remote village in Koraput district in Odisha, a group of women gathered to pray in front of something that was going to make a big difference to their lives.

 Today is the death anniversary of Revered Dr J Jayalalithaa, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Drawing lessons from outstanding farm women and men, our Prime Minster had called for doubling the income of farmers in the next five years. Numerous suggestions are being given on how to achieve this goal.

The Mitsubishi India CMD, Mr. Eisuke Shiozaki, is delivering a Millennium Lecture at MSSRF on December 6, 2017 at 11 am.

For the small group of media professionals, an early morning walk in a 10 ha Botanical Garden, listening to sounds of birds was just one of the activities at the three-day media workshop on “Bringing Biodiversity into the Media Space”.

Economic media are happy that this years’ Q2 GDP went up to 6.3 percent. At the same time, they report that hunger and communicable diseases are increasing in our country.

Onion and tomato prices are going up in major cities causing considerable hardship to the poorer and middle class families.

A strategy is needed to conserve biodiversity in Wayanad and to make it a model conservation district said Prof M S Swaminathan, Founder MSSRF at a media workshop on biodiversity here.

Climate change was again placed at the centre of global diplomacy over the past two weeks as diplomats gathered in Bonn, Germany, for the latest annual round of United Nations climate talks (1). The Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to convene a facilitative dialogue among Parties in 2018 and the Fijian presidency presented a robust design of next year’s stock take of the global efforts to achieve the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals and inform the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), the so-called Talanoa Dialogue (2).

The Karshakashree Award that recognizes an outstanding Kerala farmer has been awarded to a woman farmer from Palakkad.