.In 1999, he was one of three Indians, along with Gandhi and Tagore, on TIME magazines' list of the '20 Most Influential Asian People of the 20th Century', along with Eiji Toyoda, Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong. He has been a President of the Pugwash Conferences and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Swaminathan contributed basic research related to potato, wheat and rice, in areas such as cytogenetics, ionizing radiation and radiosensitivity. United Nations Environment Programme has called him 'the Father of Economic Ecology'. src='https://www.raajkart.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/207x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/8/38_14.jpg' alt=' His leadership as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines was instrumental in his being awarded the first World Food Prize in 1987, recognized as the Nobel or the highest honours in the field of agriculture. Swaminathan's collaborative scientific efforts with Norman Borlaug, spearheading a mass movement with farmers and other scientists and backed by public policies, saved India and Pakistan from certain famine-like conditions in the 1960s. -->
.In 1999, he was one of three Indians, along with Gandhi and Tagore, on TIME magazines' list of the '20 Most Influential Asian People of the 20th Century', along with Eiji Toyoda, Dalai Lama and Mao Zedong. He has been a President of the Pugwash Conferences and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Swaminathan contributed basic research related to potato, wheat and rice, in areas such as cytogenetics, ionizing radiation and radiosensitivity. United Nations Environment Programme has called him 'the Father of Economic Ecology'. 
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