Animal Health and Production

Nuclear Focus on Animal Production and Health
The FAO/IAEA Symposium on Sustainable Improvement of Animal Production, focusing on the use of nuclear technologies to enhance animal nutrition and reproduction strategies and to detect and control animal-origin diseases that can be transmitted to humans, such as swine and avian influenza, opened in Vienna, 8 June 2009. Read Story
Symposium Information
FAO/IAEA Symposium to Address Animal Production and Health, Media Advisory, 4 June 2009

News Stories & Articles

Livestock Productivity Project in Honduras, 4 June 2009
Better Beef and Milk Through Nuclear Technologies, 3 June 2009
New Recruit in Fight Against Bird Flu, 28 October 2008
Screw Worm Outbreak in Yemen,
30 April 2008
Prized Black Bengal Goats of Bangladesh, 19 March 2007
Success Stories from the FAO/IAEA Joint Division
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Features

Feed the Hungry, Today and Tomorrow, IAEA Bulletin (Vol. 50/1, 2008)
Avian Flu Early Warning,
IAEA Bulletin (Vol. 48/1, 2006)
Africa Making History, 29 December 2004
Eliminating the Tsetse Fly, February 2002

Statement

Atoms for Food, by Werner Burkart, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, 26 January 2009

Video

Livestock Productivity Project in Honduras, 4 June 2009
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Audio

Interview with Gerrit Viljoen,
Head, Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division, 4 June 2009:

FAO/IAEA Symposium on Sustainable Improvement of Animal Production and Health

Animal Health

Animal Production

Interview with David Nabarro,
UN System Coordinator for Influenza and Global Food Security, 4 June 2009:

Link Between Animal Health and Human Health

Humanity Will Need More Food

Work of FAO/IAEA Joint Division

World Food Crisis

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