News & Highlights

World Summit on Food Security World Summit on Food Security. Sixty Heads of State and Government and 191 Ministers from 182 countries and the European Community attended the World Summit for Food Security from 16-18 November 2009. Full Story »


World Trade Organization - Transparency deal emerging for developing nations' treatment in food safety and related issues. Full Story »

Community-based Dairy Veterinary Services in Bangladesh Community-based Dairy Veterinary Services in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has taken advantage of results from previous research conducted through IAEA CRP and TCP to develop a self-sustaining Community-based Dairy Veterinary Service. Full Story »

IAEA’s support to animal health services in Yemen (1995 - 2009) IAEA’s support to animal health services in Yemen (1995 - 2009). Since Yemen became a Member State of the IAEA in 1995, collaboration between Yemen and the Agency through national and regional TCP in the field of animal health has allowed the national veterinary services to tremendously build capacity and modernize their disease diagnostic facilities, build new level 2 and high security laboratories and to improve quality control, quality assurance and laboratory management practices. Full Story »

Agriculture Feeds and Saves the World. Experts say that healthy, properly managed agricultural land increases crop yield and can contribute significantly to the reduction of harmful greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Full Story »

A successful history of cooperation between IAEA and Angola A successful history of cooperation between IAEA and Angola. Since its admission as an IAEA Member State of in 1990, the Republic of Angola achieved a definitive peace in 2002, which allowed the establishment of a country programme framework, taking in account the sectors of Education, Health and Agriculture as priority for industry and economic development. Full Story »

Adaptation to Climate Change with Improved Agricultural Water Management Adaptation to Climate Change with Improved Agricultural Water Management. As the water available for agriculture becomes limiting due to population growth, competition from other water users, drought and water quality degradation, it is important to ensure that every drop of water (either from rainfall and irrigation) counts for crop water use. Full Story »

Extracting Fertilizer from a Clear Blue Sky Extracting Fertilizer from a Clear Blue Sky. Nitrogen fixation in cereals has been a dream of scientists and farmers for a long time. If rice, wheat and maize are able to fix all of their nitrogen from the atmosphere in the same manner as soybean, it would have major financial and environmental benefits for the agricultural community. Full Story »

The Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme The Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme. Status report on progress made to date in eradication of rinderpest: highlighting success story and action required till global declaration in 2010. [pdf] Full Story »


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Upcoming Meetings

16 – 20 November 2009
Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC), 27th Sessions, Vienna, Austria.
Technical Secretary: D. Byron

16 - 20 November 2009
Development and Evaluation of Improved Strains of Insect Pests for SIT, Vienna, Austria.
Technical Secretary: Gerald Franz

16 - 20 November 2009
Fourth and Final RCM on Pyramiding of Mutated Genes Contributing to Crop Quality and Resistance to Stress Affecting Quality, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Technical Secretary: Q.Y. Shu

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