An initiative for better nutrition to bring together different stakeholders across Tamil Nadu for nutrition was launched on May 18, 2017. Called the ‘Tamil Nadu Nutrition Alliance’, the effort is...
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 Post date: 30,May 2017
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 Post date: 05,May 2017
MSSRF commemorated International Women’s day through events at Chennai and at Wayanad centres. The event at the Community Agro-Biodiversity Centre, Wayanad focused on empowerment. A seminar on... |
 Post date: 05,May 2017
The subject of agrarian distress is dominating discussions in political and public arena. Prof M S Swaminathan, Founder MSSRF today said, there was need to look at long term solutions to ensure... |
 Post date: 05,May 2017
On first sight, Ms Raimati Ghiuria who lives with her husband and three children in Koraput district, seems like any other woman from Odisha. However, this resident of Nuaguda village is a role... |
 Post date: 05,May 2017
Over 500 farm families of Kumta, in Dharward district, Karnataka, came together in March, 2017, to save a unique rice variety known as ‘Kagga’ that can tolerate both salinity and submerged... |
 Post date: 05,May 2017
The universal approach in PDS adopted in Tamil Nadu is a better system than the targeted system being followed in other states, with lower levels of exclusion among the poorer sections of... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
MSSRF and the Indian Public Library Movement (IPLM) in association with NASSCOM Foundation, signed an MoU on February 28, 2017. This partnership aims to strengthen public libraries across India as... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
Climate Change is a mega bomb that has been detonated, and affects all, not just perpetrators said Dr Rama Singh, geneticist from McMaster University, Canada at an MSSRF Seminar on February 14,... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
Indian Public Library Movement's (IPLM) partners the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the P N Panicker Foundation (PNPF) organised a knowledge exchange visit to three public... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
Dr Geetha Rani, a long-serving family member of the Foundation, formerly Gene Bank Manager and Principal Scientist at MSSRF, passed away in Chennai on March 7, 2017. The MSSRF family was in shock... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
For the International women's Day Prof Swaminathan made the following statement: On International Women’s Day, there are discussions all over the world on methods of promoting gender equity and... |
 Post date: 05,Apr 2017
The tools of science and technology are available but ‘social engineering’ is needed to overcome malnutrition, said Dr Mahtab Sohrab Bamji, Emeritus Scientist, Indian National Science Academy at... |
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