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1 April 2013 | Indonesia: Safer food for a growing population The International Atomic Energy Agency is helping Indonesia to keep its food safe with irradiation. |
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18 March 2013 | Nuclear technology to fight malnutrition in Latin America Through its technical cooperation programme, the IAEA is working with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to support national efforts to combat malnutrition among schoolchildren. |
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19 November 2012 | How nuclear technology supports development and south-south cooperation Kwaku Aning is IAEA Deputy Director and head of its Department of Technical Cooperation. He tells Louise Potterton that facilitating development has always been part of the agency's mandate. |
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20 June 2012 | UN nuclear energy agency to launch centre to study ocean acidification. The IAEA is supporting research and action on this problem by creating the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre at its laboratories in Monaco. |
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18 June 2012 | IAEA in Rio: the fight against ocean acidification Warnau Michel, Laboratory Head of IAEA's radioecology and environmental laboratories was present at an event at Rio+20 to announce the creation of a Centre for Research on ocean acidification. |
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26 November 2011 | Innovative irrigation methods helping Kenyan farmers Water scarcity problems in Kenya mean that many farmers have to struggle to irrigate their farms. But help is now coming in the form of the IAEA, who is helping farmers make the most of their limited resources through innovative methods involving nuclear techniques. |
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16 August 2011 | Managing water efficiently using nuclear-based techniques Nuclear-based techniques are effective for measuring the amount of nutrients absorbed by plants and the soil. These techniques also help develop efficient water management strategies for crop production and environmental preservation. Joseph Miriti, a soil scientist from Kenya, learned that from a training organized by the UN’s nuclear agency, IAEA, in Vienna. |
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15 August 2011 | Kenyan agricultural specialist continues to benefit from IAEA fellowship KARI, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, has sent many agricultural specialists to participate in a fellowship programme sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA. |
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12 August 2011 | Sierra Leonean agronomist shares drip irrigation technique Rain in Sierra Leone is becoming scare because of climate change. The farmers are the ones suffering the most, says agronomist Samuel Soki Harding. Their harvest is poor and they still rely on old farming techniques. Harding learned about drip irrigation at a training organized by the IAEA in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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10 August 2011 | Kenyan scientist learns conservation techniques through IAEA fellowship Jeremiah Kimingo is an agricultural scientist at Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and a fellow in 2010 at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria. As Kenya is one of the top users of nitrogen fertilizer on the continent, Mr. Kimingo was able to learn conservation techniques during his fellowship. |
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9 August 2011 | Kenyan scientist explores new technology to fight soil fatigue Soil fatigue presents a major challenge in Kenya. Kizito Kwena, a soil scientist and recent fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency or IAEA has finished a training that will give him the tools to deal with the issue. |
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8 August 2011 | IAEA Programme helps build capacity The Technical Cooperation Department of the IAEA operates a unique training programme that gives men and women from all its member states a chance to get project-related, on-the-job experience and training at the Agency’s laboratories and in the field projects around the world. |
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27 December 2010 | Nuclear technology preserves works of art Works of art which have been attacked by bacteria, fungi, mould and insects are being protected thanks to nuclear technology. The techniques are supported by the IAEA, which operates projects to preserve cultural heritage artefacts using radiation. |
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8 June 2010 | Toxic Playpens: Children and Lead Pollution An estimated 120 million people worldwide are exposed to lead in the environment and dangerous levels of lead poisoning are found in children in some 80 countries, including the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Sasha Henriques speaks with victims of lead poisoning, as well as Jamaican scientists and experts at the IAEA about the issue. |
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23 March 2010 | Drip irrigation makes efficient use of scarce water resources Scientists from the Joint Division of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the IAEA, in Vienna, Austria are helping farmers around the world to make the most of their water resources. Using nuclear techniques that show precisely how much water and fertilizers different plant varieties need, the experts are promoting a system called “drip irrigation”. |
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8 January 2010 | Global fight to preserve daily bread For over 10,000 years wheat farmers have been battling against stem rust – a plant killing fungus that can decimate crops. |
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17 September 2009 | Nuclear Science and Technology in Africa For 20 years, an intergovernmental agreement supported by the IAEA has contributed to foster nuclear science and technology for African development. Louise Potterton speaks to the outgoing chairperson of the agreement - known as AFRA - Professor Evelyne Mbede of Tanzania. |
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5 May 2009 | Combatting Wheat Rust A new strain of wheat rust - known as Ug99 - is decimating wheat fields worldwide. But help could be at hand in the form of nuclear science. The Joint Division of the IAEA and the UN´s Food and Agriculture Organization has brought together experts from around the world to develop Ug99 resistant wheat varieties by using radiation to induce mutations in seeds. Louise Potterton spoke to one of the experts, William Wagoire from Uganda, who first detected the new strain. |
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30 April 2009 | Searching for Pollution in the Caribbean The IAEA is using nuclear technologies to study coastal pollution in 12 Caribbean countries. The project, which operates in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is coordinated by the IAEA´s Marine Environment Laboratories in Monaco. Louise Potterton spoke to Joan Albert Sanchez Cabeza, who heads the Radiometrics Laboratory in Monaco. |
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18 March 2009 | Addressing Concerns About Food Irradiation´s Safety David Byron, Head of the IAEA´s Food and Environment Protection Section, talks to Sasha Henriques about the use of irradiation to protect people from food-borne illnesses caused by harmful micro-organisms. |
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29 August 2008 | Protecting Those Who Heal Operating theatres can be dangerous workplaces for heart surgeons and other medical personnel. Giovanni Verlini speaks to Professor Eliseo Vano, from the Radiology Department of the Complutense University of Madrid. |
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6 June 2008 | "Orphaned" Radioactive Sources In this episode of IAEA talk, Kirstie Hansen looks at the problem of so-called "orphaned" radioactive |
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9 April 2008 | Plant Breeding and Food Security IAEA intern Karine Langlois talks with Plant Breeding Unit Head Chikelu Mba on the IAEA's work to help ensure food security through plant breeding techniques. |
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