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Section I. Food security and economic development - how science is applied to solve problems of poverty, drought and famine. 1. Key to third world prosperity / Swaminathan, M. S. 2. Changing nature of the food security challenge : implications for agricultural research and policy / Swaminathan, M. S. 3. Bridging the nutritional divide - building community centred nutrition security systems / Swaminathan, M. S. 4. Africa's rainbow revolution / Swaminathan, M. S. 5. Hunger in Africa : the link between unhealthy people and unhealthy soils / Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swarninathan, M. S. 6. Cutting world hunger in half / Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swaminathan, M. S. 7. Can science and technology feed the world in 2025? / Swarninathan, M. S. 8. Effects of climate change on food production / Parry, Martin L. and Swaminathan, M. S. 9. Sustainable food security in Africa : lessons from India's green revolution / Swaminathan, M. S. 10. Sustainable food and water security / Swaminathan, M. S. -- Section II. Science and food security - how science is used to generate efficient and optimal agricultural outputs. 11. Science and sustainable food security / Swaminathan, M. S. 12. Indian agriculture at the crossroads / Swaminathan, M. S. 13. Magnitude of hybrid vigor retained in double haploid lines of some heterotic rice hybrids / Bui Ba Bong and Swaminathan, M. S. 14. Development of monosomic series in an Indian wheat and isolation of a nullisomic lines / Swaminathan, M. S. ... [et al.]. 15. Consanguineous marriages and the genetic load due to lethal genes in Kerala / Kumar, S., Pai, R. A. and Swaminathan, M. S. 16. The experimental manipulation of genes / Swaminathan, M. S. 17. Nature of polyploidy in some 48-chromosome species of the section Tuberarium Genus Solanum / Swaminathan, M. S. 18. Overcoming cross-incompatibility among some Mexican diploid species of solanum / Swaminathan, M. S. 19. Polyploidy and radiosensitivity / Swaminathan, M. S. and Natarajan, A. T. 20. Disomic and tetrosomic inheritance in a Solanum hybrid / Swaminathan, M. S. 21. The green revolution in Indian agriculture from an environmentally sound technology point of view / Swaminathan, M. S. 22. Science and shaping our agricultural future / Swaminathan, M. S. -- Section III. Food security and ecological balance - how the gains of green revolution are impacted by climate change, how science will be helpful in ensuring sustainable food security, green revolution to ever-green revolution - a roadmap. 23. An evergreen revolution / Swaminathan, M. S. 24. Agriculture and food systems / Swaminathan, M. S. 25. Managing extreme natural disasters in coastal areas / Kesavan, P. C. and Swaminathan M. S. 26. Ecological security - a prerequisite for food and livelihood security / Swaminathan, M. S. 27. Genetic conservation : microbes to Man. Presidential addres / Swaminathan, M. S. 28. Monsoon management in an era of climate change.

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