Promoting Trans disciplinary Research and Action in Sustainable Management of Agrobiodiversity

We Are

MSSRF Family

Community Agrobiodiversity Centre (CAbC) was established in 1997 at Wayanad district of Kerala, as one of the regional centres of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India. The Centre was established to promote community conservation systems of rural and tribal people through research, extension and advocacy. Centre works in partnership with rural and farming communities for sustainable agricultural and rural development. The activities are designed in such a way that promotes a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-woman and a pro-livelihood orientation to technology development and dissemination.

Our Intervention Areas

Children and poor people are at high risk of severe malnutrition & no education

What’s Happening

Farmers: Spice Breeders & Conservers Technical Session
The "Farmers as Spice Breeders and Conservators" session, part of Seed Fest ...
Farmer Managed Seed System is The Need Of The HourWayanad Community Seed Fest 2025
The 9th edition of the Wayanad Community Seed Festival was inaugurated by ...

Stories from the field

Disheartened by Kerala’s receding shoreline, especially in his native Vypeen, Murukesan has been on a mission to save the mangrove ...
A sustainable model to check the encroaching desertification tendencies of southern Deccan plateau to the district, farming with Bamboo could ...
Scarcity to abundance: A case result of drought mitigation measures at Noolpuzha Every year, June 17th is observed as the ...