Animal Production and Health
The Animal Production and Health Sub-programme contribute to the enhancement of global food security through the implementation of sustainable livestock production systems using nuclear and nuclear related techniques.
We assist Member States to improve livestock productivity through the efficient use of locally available feed resources, adequate management practices and breeding programmes for indigenous and upgraded animals, and diagnostic tools and prophylactic measures
for the control and prevention of animal and zoonotic diseases.
Support and guidance is provided in formulating and implementing activities that underpin Member States’ national, regional and global livestock development objectives in strategic, applied and adaptive research, technology transfer, capacity building, policy advice and information management.
[ Overview of Activities]
Highlights
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 »
Nuclear Focus on Animal Production and Health.
An international symposium focusing on the use of nuclear and nuclear related technologies to enhance animal nutrition and reproduction and to detect and control diseases of animal origin that can be transmitted to humans, such as Influenza-A (H1N1), commonly known as swine flu,
and avian influenza, was recently concluded in Vienna.
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Improving Livestock Productivity in Honduras - IAEA Project Set to Move From Laboratories to Farms. Honduras is poised to bring a set of integrated laboratory-based services for the benefit of cattle farmers, as an IAEA-supported project to improve livestock productivity moves into its third phase. Full Story »
Bovine Genome Provides Clues to Evolution, Better Beef and Milk.
After 6 years of work by more than 300 researchers from 25 countries and $53 million in funding, the cow genome has arrived. Sequencing of the bovine genome provides new information about mammalian evolution as well as cattle-specific
biology and points the way to research that could result in more sustainable food production in a world challenged by global population growth. Full Story »
IAEA’s support helps Eritrea to controlling Brucellosis and Tuberculosis in Cattle.
The IAEA started to support the veterinary services of Eritrea in the late 1990s when the country requested help with their rinderpest eradication programme. The IAEA provided technical assistance in the setting-up of a diagnostic laboratory and the training of staff
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Key Topics
 Animal health |
 Reproduction and breeding |
 Animal nutrition |
 Sustainable production |
 Scientific training |