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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have launched the Atoms4Food initiative to help boost food security and tackle growing world hunger. It will support countries to use innovative nuclear techniques in enhancing agricultural productivity, reducing food losses, ensuring food safety, improving nutrition, and adapting to the challenges of climate change.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-and-fao-launch-atoms4food-initiative-11232607
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched the Global Water Analysis Laboratory Network to help countries generate their own chemical, biological and isotopic water data and develop tailored water management strategies.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 March 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-launches-global-water-resources-initiative
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organised an event on 14 November at its Atoms4Climate pavilion – on the sidelines of COP27 meeting in Egypt – to discuss scientific solutions being implemented to monitor and manage water availability in mountainous regions.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-focuses-on-access-to-water-at-cop27-10356481
Opening the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) Atoms4Climate pavilion at United Nations climate change conference, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said nuclear science and technology are part of the solution to both mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change impacts.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgrossi-active-at-cop27-10350059
As the nuclear sector takes its place at the COP27 gathering, the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general says that Long Term Operation (extending the lifetime of existing nuclear plants) is the "unsung hero of the fight against global warming".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-plants-could-safely-operate-for-100-years,
Participants in a programme launched by the IAEA during the COVID-19 pandemic have agreed to step up joint efforts to fight the monkeypox and Lassa fever viruses using nuclear science.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 10 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-science-to-help-tackle-monkeypox,-Lassa-fe
A pilot trial of a nuclear technique in a neighbourhood of the Cuban capital Havana reduced mosquito numbers by up to 90% last year. Early reports show that cases of mosquito-borne diseases were completely eliminated in the last two months of the trial.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 15 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-technique-cuts-mosquito-numbers-in-Cuban-t
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi talks about the Nuclear Saves Partnerships through which industry and others can partner with the Agency to expand its efforts to support development projects in low- and middle-income countries.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 25 November 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Message-The-Nuclear-Saves-Partnership-an-IAEA-init
A new infrared system is helping the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to speed up the sorting of male from female tsetse flies as the agency controls the breeding of the insect using irradiation. The tsetse is a bloodsucking insect found in sub-Saharan Africa which transmits a parasite that can be fatal to both animals and humans.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 08 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-announces-innovation-in-tsetse-fly-control
Achieving the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires international organisations overcoming bureaucratic barriers and forging partnerships, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said yesterday. "Partnerships are both a moral imperative, but also a practical necessity," he said during a virtual panel discussion on Partnership for the Goals at the World Health Summit in Berlin.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 29 October 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Partnerships-key-to-meeting-SDGs-says-Grossi