SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY - Selected Papers of M.S. Swaminathan: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore-596224. Price not stated.

There are several ways of honouring men of eminence. Short of a Nobel, M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist, has received innumerable awards and honours. And now, the Indian Institute of Science publishing his selected papers as a part of their ‘Centenary Lecture Series' is an honour that would go a long way in inspiring science to serve society more and more.

In this collection of 28 papers, all but a few — published in Nature and Annals of Genetics — are on different dimensions of science in relation to sustainable food security. Although published over a long time span, 1965-2009, the papers reveal his pioneering interest right through in issues affecting not just crop productivity and biotechnology but also bio-safety, biodiversity, climate change, and food and nutrition security, which have become major concerns today...................Click for more

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