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Water scarcity, high temperatures and sandy soils have been a problem for farmers, especially women farmers, in Mauritania trying to grow vegetables under harsh conditions to feed their families and sell at local markets. Read more →
Interview with Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General for Climate and Natural Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), and a speaker at the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology, starting on 26 November. Read more →
Experts in Egypt and Senegal will be better able to fight soil erosion thanks to two gamma spectroscopy detectors which have just been delivered through the IAEA's technical cooperation programme. Read more →
When environmental chemist Wilfren Clutario wanted to understand the level of pollution caused by the world’s most severe typhoon, which claimed over 6000 lives and devastated two-thirds of Tacloban in 2013, he had a problem: there was no baseline data available. Read more →
The United States’ Government this week announced a US$ 839,000 contribution to support the work of the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC). The announcement, made at the 2018 Our Ocean Conference in Bali, comes in addition to earlier US donations to the Centre, including the most recent one in 2017. Read more →