Food security has emerged as a common thread in discussions among space scientists, forestry experts, agriculturalists and zoologists participating in the 97th Indian Science Congress, currently underway here. The issue is being debated in several sessions against the backdrop of global warming, climatic changes, water scarcity and changed land utilisation.
COPENHAGEN: If India protects its food security from climate change impacts, it could negotiate with greater confidence at international climate talks, says eminent scientist M.S. Swaminathan, who is on the parliamentary delegation to the U.N. summit here.
OBSERVING that people today wasted time and technology in small and ridiculous things, while ignoring certain important things, Theosophical Society president Radha Burnier asked people to see life in plants and animals that exist around them.
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member and noted agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan has urged the media to give more importance to the agriculture sector to help it face another revolution on the lines of
CHENNAI: The chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, M.S. Swaminathan, was awarded a honoris causa by the University of Talca at a recent function in Chile.
University Vice Chancellor Luis Huerta and Rector Juan Antonia Rock presented the award to Dr. Swaminathan.
Amid concerns over the adverse impact of unchecked construction activities in the ecologically sensitive coastal zones of the country, the Environment Ministry on Tuesday came out with a new set of
KOCHI: The present draft of the Food Security Act, aimed at guaranteeing food at affordable prices, will not result in food security, said agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan. A holistic approach is required to give integrated attention to all links in the production-consumption chain, said Prof Swaminathan.
