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

Government High School, Kallar, Idukki Transformed into Smart School
Pambadumpara, Idukki : Government High School, Kallar in Pambadumpara village has been ...
Nedumkandam Panchayat UP School Transformed into Smart School Through HDFC Bank Parivartan Project
Nedumkandam Panchayat UP School has been upgraded into a Smart School as ...

Stories from the field

The potable water from the natural sources in Kuttanad region of Kerala is known for its toxicity owing to the ...
Dr Archana Bhatt | Vipin Das February 10th is observed as “World Pulses Day” every year as declared by the ...