MSSRF’s Wayanad Centre to Host 2-Day Conference on Biodiversity, Climate Change & Adaptation

Agrobiodiversity, agriculture, and coastal biodiversity must be prioritised if local climate change is to be implemented in India, according to Madhura Swaminathan, Chairperson of the M.S. Swaminathan Analysis Foundation (MSSRF).

During a press conference on Wednesday, she stated that local climate change remained the foundation and its Group Agrobiodiversity Centre (CAbC) in Wayanad, Kerala, whose silver jubilee is being commemorated with a hybrid global conference on "Biodiversity, Local Climate Change, and Adaptation" on June 5 and 6.

She published a specific book that provided four main outcomes of the CAbC coverage: ex-situ conservation of RET vegetation in the Western Ghats; conservation and protection of neglected and traditional tuber vegetation; conservation of vanishing rice varieties; and the deal with growing food in tribal dwelling house gardens.

G.N. Hariharan, Government Director MSSRF, and noted agricultural scientist Professor M.S. Swaminathan founded the Wayanad Centre in the early 1990s with the goal of combining conservation, cultivation, consumption, and commerce – the four dimensions of sustainable genetic beneficial aid management – into a realistic method to deal with the problem of sustainable agriculture.

CAbC Director V. Shakeela stated that the Center had documented and conserved rare, endemic, and threatened plant species of the Western Ghats, recording 2,100 flowering vegetation with 52 RED Knowledge Species and nearly 900 Indian subcontinent endemics. It has identified 39 plant species from the Kerala region of the Western Ghats that may be novel to science.

T. Jayaraman, Senior Fellow, Local climate Change, MSSRF, noted that the conference was associated with the modern-day context because it was meticulously organised after the IPCC Working Group research was discovered in February. He noted that as greenhouse gases and carbon emissions increased, biodiversity became threatened, and convincing governments to spend interior carbon budgets became critical.