Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword -- About the Editor -- Introduction -- Combining Yield and Quality in Rice -- Economics of Pusa Basmati 4 cultivation: -- Area under Pusa 1121 cultivation during Kharif 2007: -- Release of Pusa 1121 in Punjab: -- State of Indian Agriculture Today and the Way Ahead -- Defending the Gains -- Overcoming the Technology Fatigue -- Training -- Techno-infrastructure -- Trade -- References -- Section I: Food Security and Economic Development - How science is applied to solve problems of poverty, drought and famine -- Commentary -- 1. Swaminathan, M.S. (1983). Agricultural Progress - Key to Third World Prosperity. Third World Quarterly 5(3): 553-566. -- 2. Swaminathan, M.S. (1990). Changing Nature of the Food Security Challenge: Implications for Agricultural Research and Policy. Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Washington DC. -- Food Security Challenges Today -- Technology and Food and Ecological Security -- Response to the Challenges Ahead -- Biotechnology: Opportunities -- Biotechnology and Third World Concerns -- Biodiversity and Biofuture -- Food and Jobs -- Research for Tomorrow -- 3. Swaminathan, M.S. (2001). Bridging the Nutritional Divide - Building Community Centred Nutrition Security Systems. The Little Magazine, Year end, 2001 , pp. 15-25. -- GROWING DISPARITIES -- NUTRITION PROFILE AMONG A FEW NATIONS IN ASIA: ROLE OF NON-NUTRITIONAL FACTORS -- CHALLENGES AHEAD -- MEETING THE CHALLENGES -- BUILplNG A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY NUTRITION SECURITY SYSTEM -- AGENDA 2007: A HUNGER-FREE INDIA -- REFERENCES -- 4. Swaminathan, M.S. (2004). Africa's Rainbow Revolution. TWAS Newsletter 3/4, 10,72-76. -- ACTION.

5. Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swarninathan, M.S. (2005). Hunger in Africa: The Link Between Unhealthy People and Unhealthy Soils. The Lancet - Vol. 265, Issue 9457,29 January 2005,442-444. -- Understanding Afria's food productivity crisis -- Time for a 21st century green revolution for Africa -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6. Sanchez Pedro, A. and Swaminathan, M.S. (2005). Cutting World Hunger in Half. Science 307(5708): 357-359. -- Diagnosis -- Recommendations -- Entry Points -- Resources Needed -- It Can Be Done -- References and Notes -- 7. Swaminathan, M.S. (2007). Can Science and Technology Feed the World in 2025? Field Crops Research 104: 3-9. -- Technology -- Training -- Techno-Infrastructure -- Trade -- Shaping our Agricultural Future - A three pronged Strategy -- Defending the Gains -- Extending the Gains -- Making New Gains -- References -- 8. Parry, Martin L. and Swaminathan, M.S. (1992). Effects of Climate Change on Food Production. Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses. Irwing, M, Montzer (ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 113-115. -- Editors Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Most Threatening Types of Climate Change -- 2.1. Climatic extremes -- 2.2. Warming in high latitudes -- 2.3. Poleward advance of monsoon rainfall -- 2.4. Reduced soil water availability -- 3. Potential Direct Effects of Greenhouse Gases on Crops and Livestock -- 3.1. Effects of CO2 increase on plant growth -- 3.1.1. C3 and C4 plants -- 3.1.2. The limits of knowledge about CO2 effects -- 4. Potential Effects of Climate Change -- 4.1. Effects on geographical limits to agriculture -- 4.1.1. Changes in thermal limits to agriculture -- 4.1.2. Shifts of moisture limits to agriculture -- 4.1.3. Regions affected by drought, heat stress and other extremes.

4.1.4. Effects on the distribution of agricultural pests and diseases -- 4.2. Effects on crop yields -- 4.2.1. In humid and semi-arid low latitude regions -- 4.2.2. In the midlatitude grainbelts -- 4.2.3. In northern marginal regions -- 4.3. Effects on livestock carrying capacity -- 5. Likely Effects on World Food Supply and Food Security -- 6. Response Strategies -- 6.1. Changes in land use -- 6.1.1. Changes in farmed area -- 6.1.2. Changes in crop type -- 6.2. Changes in management -- 6.2.1. Irrigation -- 6.2.2. Fertilizer use -- 6.2.3. Control of pests and diseases -- 6.2.4. Soil drainage and control of erosion -- 6.2.5. Changes infarm infrastructure -- 6.3. Changes in crop and livestock husbandry -- 6.4. Integrating the responses -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 9. Swaminathan, M.S. (2003). Sustainable Food Security in Africa: Lessons from India's Green Revolution. South African Journal of International Affairs 10(1): 11-26. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Agriculture in the 21st Century -- 3. The African Challenge -- 4. Food Production Strategies: Lessons from Indian Experience -- 4.1. Package of Technology -- 4.2. Package of Services -- 4.3. Package of Government Policies -- 4.4. Symphonic and Knowledge-Intensive Production Systems -- 4.5. Sustainable Nutrition Security -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 10. Swaminathan, M.S. (2003). Sustainable Food and Water Security. Ankuram - Environment Quarterly 1(1): 23-33. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Food Security -- Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) -- Meeting the Challenge -- The Gene Revolution -- The Information Technology Revolution -- The Ecotechnology Revolution -- Precision Agriculture -- 2. Water Security -- 2.1. Physical access -- 2.2. Economic access -- 2.3. Environmental access -- 2.4. Social access -- Competing Demands for Water -- Managing Competing Demands -- The Next Steps.

Biotechnology and Water Security: Opportunities -- Drought and Salinity Stress -- Basic Biochemical and Molecular Studies -- Identification and isolation of novel genes including identifICation of new source material -- Molecular Breeding and Development of Transgenics for Crop Productivity and Biological Remediations -- Water Security: Bridge to a Millennium of Hope -- 4. Impact of Climate Change -- Climate Management and Sustainable Food Security -- International Networkfor Anticipatory Research to Meet the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Food Security -- 5. Safeguarding the Ecological Foundations of Sustainable Agriculture: Agrobiodiversity -- Convention on Biological Diversity and Farmers' Rights -- TRIPS and Farmers' Rights -- Converting Farmers' Rights from rhetoric to reality -- 6. Towards a Century of Hope -- Designer Crops -- References -- Section II: Science and Food Security - How science is used to generate efficient and optimal agricultural outputs -- Commentary -- 11. Swaminathan, M.S. (1999). Science and Sustainable Food Security. 3rt Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, 39 pp. -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. AGRICULTURE IN THE 21sT CENTURY -- III. MEETING THE CHALLENGES AHEAD -- A. The Gene Revolution -- B. The Ecotechnology Revolution -- C. The Yield Revolution -- Wheat -- IV. INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT -- Participatory Forest Management (PFM) -- Community Gene Management -- Structure of Community Gene Management System (CGMS) -- Biosphere Management -- V. ATTRACTING AND RETAINING YOUTH IN FARMING -- A. Launching an Ever-green Revolution Movement -- B. Implementation at the local level of the provisions of global conventions -- VI. LOCAL BODIES AND A HUNGER-FREE INDIA -- Improving economic access to food -- VII. REVOLUTION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: GOALS FOR THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE.

12. Swaminathan, M.S. (1981). Indian Agriculture at the Crossroads. Current Science 51: 13-24. -- INTRODUCTION -- OUR AGRICULTURAL EVOLUTION DURING THIS CENTURY -- PATHWAY: -- OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT -- SUPER FARMS AND SMALL FARMS -- SUPER FARMS -- HELPING SMALL FARMERS -- Organisation of Land Use Boards -- RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- SYSTEMS APPROACH TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Constraints anaysis and Remol'al -- BASIC BlJlLDtNG BLOCKS OF THE ENHANCED HOME PRODUCTION PATHWAY -- 13. Bui Ba Bong and Swaminathan, M.S. (1995). Magnitude of Hybrid Vigor Retained in Double Haploid Lines of Some Heterotic Rice Hybrids. Theor. Appl. Genet. 90: 253-257. -- Introduction -- Materials and methods -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- 14. Swaminathan, M.S., Chopra, V.L., Joshi B.C. and Singh, D. (1968). Development of Monosomic Series in an Indian Wheat and Isolation of a Nullisomic Lines. Wheat Information Service 27: 19-20. -- Literature -- 15. Kumar, S., Pai, R.A. and Swaminathan, M.S. (1967). Consanguineous Marriages and the Genetic Load Due to Lethal Genes in Kerala. Ann. Hum. Genet. Lond. 131: 141-147. -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 16. Swaminathan, M.S. (1965). The Experimental Manipulation of Genes. Curro Sci. 34: 108-111. -- 17. Swaminathan, M.S. (1954). Nature of Polyploidy in Some 48-Chromosome Species of the Section Tuberarium Genus Solanum. Genetics 39: 56-76. -- MATERIAL AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LITERATURE CITED -- 18. Swaminathan, M.S. (1955). Overcoming Cross-Incompatibility Among some Mexican Diploid Species of Solanum. Nature 176: 887-888. -- 19. Swaminathan, M.S. and Natarajan, A.T. (1957). Polyploidy and Radiosensitivity. Nature 179: 479-480.

20. Swaminathan, M.S. (1956). Disomic and Tetrosomic Inheritance in a Solanum Hybrid. Nature 178: 599-600.