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M.S. Swaminathan REFERENCES
1. Chakraborty S., Chakraborty N., Datta A. (2000): ‘Increased Nutritive Value of Transgenic Potato by Expressing a Non-allergenic Seed Albumin from Amaranthus hypochondriacus.’ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 3724-3729. 2. Ferro-Luzzi, A., Branca F., and Pastore G. (1994): ‘Body Mass Index Defines the Risk of Seasonal Energy Stress in the Third World.’ European Jour. Clinical Nutrition 48 (Suppl. 3): 165-178. 3. Gardner, Gary and Halwell, Brain (2000): ‘Overfed and Underfed: the Global Epidemic of Malnutrition.’ World Watch Paper 150, World Watch Institute, Washington, DC 68 pp. 4. Gopalan, C. (2001): ‘Combating Vitamin A Deficiency and Micronutrient Malnutrition through Dietary Improvement’, MSSRF, Chennai (Mimeographed). 5. IFAD (2001): ‘Assessment of Rural Poverty in Asia and the Pacific Region’, August 2001. 6. Lucca P., Hurrell R., Potrykus I. (2000): ‘Development of Iron-rich Rice and Improvement of its Absorption in Humans by Genetic Engineering.’ Journal of Plant Nutrition 23: 11-12 7. Measham, A.R. and Meera Chatterjee (1997): Wasting Away: The Crisis of Malnutrition in India. The World Bank, Washington, DC. Directions on Development series, 78 pp. 8. Swaminathan, Mina (1998). Maternity and Child Care Code: Forum for Creche and Child Care Services (FORCES), New Delhi. 9. Paroda, R.S. (2001): Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Nutritional Security. Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi. 10. Philip, James et al, (2000): ‘Ending Malnutrition by 2020: An Agenda for Change in the Millennium.’ Food and Nutrition Bulletin, United Nations University, Tokyo. Vol 21 (13), supplement, 88 pp. 11. Quality Protein Maize 1964-1994: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Quality Protein Maize. Edited by Brian Larkins and Edwin T Mertz. Sete Lagoas, MG, Brazil, Dec 1-3, 1994. 12. Raina A., Datta A. (1992): ‘Molecular Cloning of a Gene Encoding a Seed-specific Protein with Nutritionally Balanced Amino Acid Composition from Amaranthus.’ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 89: 11774-11778. 13. Ramalingaswami, V., Johnson, U. and Rohde, J. (1997). ‘Malnutrition: A South Asian Enigma.’ In Malnutrition in South Asia, Ed. Stuart Gillespie, Rosa Publication No.5, UNICEF, Nepal. 14. Rama Narayanan, 2001. ‘How Secure are our Mothers and Children?’ Paper presented at a workshop on Human Health Security, Chennai, India. 15. UNDP Human Development Report (2001): Making New Technologies Work for Human Development, Oxford University Press, 264 pp. 16. Vasal S.K., Villegas E., Tang C.Y., Werder J., Read M. (1984): ‘Combined Use of Two Genetic Systems in the Development and Improvement of Quality Protein Maize.’ Kulturpflanze 32: 171-185. 17. Ye X., Al-Babili S., Kloti A., Zhang J., Lucca P., Beyer P., Potrykus I. (2000): ‘Engineering Provitamin A (Beta carotene) Biosynthetic Pathway into (Carotenoid-free) Rice Endosperm.’ Science, 287: 303-305
4Charts and tables referred to in this article are available in the print edition.
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M.S.
Swaminathan, a founding father of the Green Revolution in India, worked
to develop the nation’s food security as Secretary for Agriculture. He
has also been Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research
and the International Rice Research Institute, Independent Chairman of
the FAO Council, and President of the International Union for the Conservation
of Nature and Natural Resources. He is a member of the Royal Society,
the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy and the Italian
and Chinese Academies. His honours include the World Food Prize, UNEP’s
Sasakawa Award and the Tyler and Honda Prizes. He lives in Chennai, where
he heads the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Developmen
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