M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

The M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is a nonprofit NGO trust based in Chennai, India.

It develops and promotes strategies for economic growth that directly target increased employment of poor women in rural areas.

In 1970, C.V. Raman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, urged Swaminathan to start an autonomous research centre to realize his goals of sustainable development, which he now terms the "Evergreen Revolution".

Swaminathan also currently holds the UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology and is chairman of the National Commission on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security of India.

MSSRF operates in five major program areas — Coastal Systems Research, Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Ecotechnology and Food security, Gender and development, and Informatics.