A tribute to M.S. Swaminathan, ‘the man who fed India’
There is much to learn from one of India’s most successful experiments — the achievement of food self-sufficiency in the 1960s and the scientist who made it possible Source link
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Why India’s Green Revolution isn’t a blueprint to feed a hungry planet
Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially in the Global South. The war in Ukraine is also a factor. Russia is blockading Ukrainian grain exports, and fertilizer prices have surged because of trade…
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M.S. Swaminathan, the scientist who sliced potatoes
M.S. Swaminathan | Photo Credit: Illustration R. Rajesh In 1990, when M.S. Swaminathan set up his research centre in a small house in Kotturpuram in Chennai, I called on him to enquire about publishing with Macmillan India. “I haven’t got past my first year and you’re sure I have a book in me?” he laughed….
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