1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by
The results are described of the debate held by the IAEA Board of Governors on the Israeli attack on Iraq's nuclear research centre and the position of the Board announced to the UN Security Council. Following the visit of safeguard inspectors in Iraq the Director General
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Eklund, S. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria))
The current state and prospects of world power reactor development up to the year 1990 are given as are data on estimates of total and nuclear electricity generating capacity and power generation, the number of reactors which are under construction and those which are already in
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by D. F. R. Bommer and J.P. Hrabovszky
Throughout history, one of mankind's central battles has been against hunger, and it is only in the last hundred years that a good share of humanity has been reasonably well fed. To the shame of a prosperous world, however, nearly half a billion people receive insufficient food
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Fried, M.; Lamm, C.G. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
In 1964 the FAO and IAEA decided to establish a joint programme for the specific purpose of assisting Member States in applying nuclear techniques to develop their food and agriculture. As a result, the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Bole, J.B.; Danso, S.K.A. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
In the field of the rational use of fertilizers the efforts of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division are directed towards the developing nations. The experience of the Division has shown that a direct measurement of fertilizer uptake efficiency is the most effective way of obtaining this
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Y. Barrada
FAO statistics indicate that 48% of the world's cereal grains are now produced in developing countries which contain 60% of the land planted with cereals, and 73% of the world population. Though food production increased 2.4% per annum during the 1970s, the number of people
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Kooij, J. van (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
Twenty-five years of development work on the preservation of food by irradiation have shown that this technology has the potential to reduce post-harvest losses and to produce safe foods. The technological feasibility has been established but general acceptance of food
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Lindquist, D.A. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
Pesticides are chemicals used to control pests such as insects, weeds, plant diseases, nematodes, and rodents. The increased use of pesticides since 1945 has greatly aided the increase in crop production, protected livestock from diseases such as trypanosomiasis, protected man
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by LaBrecque, G.C. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
An effective Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme requires a thorough knowledge of the biology of the target species, namely information on the dispersal, population densities and dynamics as well as the ecology of the natural enemies of the pest. Studies on these can be
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1981 - Volume 23, Issue 3 | by Offori, E.D. (Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development, Vienna (Austria))
The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is described as one of the most promising insect control techniques being environmentally acceptable and species-specific and can be used in special circumstances as a quarantine procedure to prevent re-establishment in tsetse-fly-cleared
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