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Africa needs a ‘Farm to Fork’ vision to change its food systems in a more sustainable way and the EU can be at the centre of this transformation, according to a senior official of the United Nations fund for rural agriculture. Dr Donal Brown is associate vice-president of the Programme Management department at the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He spoke to EURACTIV’s journalist Gerardo Fortuna. With its Farm to Fork strategy (F2F), the Commission aims to make ...

UN-Habitat: Support to Tenure Security Improvement Interventions (Uganda) 120SHARES UN-Habitat has announced the Call for Expression of Interest to solicit interest from national not for profit urban civil societyorganizations as Implementing Partners that wish to participate in UN-Habitat operation and contribute complementary resources. Outcomes  This project will focus on achieving the three mains Outcomes namely: Outcome 1: Increased land tenure security for urban poor in select informal ...

Organizational Setting The Department of Safeguards (SG) is the organizational hub for the implementation of IAEA safeguards. The IAEA implements nuclear verification activities for over 180 States in accordance with their safeguards agreements. The main objective of the Department is to maintain and further develop an effective and efficient verification system in order to draw independent, impartial and timely safeguards conclusions, thus providing credible assurances to the international com...

Organizational Setting The objective of the Department of Nuclear Energy (NE) is to foster the efficient and safe use of nuclear power by supporting interested Member States in: improving the performance of nuclear power plants, the nuclear fuel cycle, and the management of nuclear wastes; catalysing innovation in nuclear power and fuel cycle technologies; developing indigenous capabilities around the world for national energy planning; deploying new nuclear power plants; preserving and dissemi...

Omar Yusuf, IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation During the Task Force meeting, new quality assurance protocols were elaborated to improve the quality of nuclear medicine services. Here, a head phantom is being aligned in the gantry of a Computed Tomography machine at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA) Working with the IAEA, African experts  have succeeded in establishing the continent’s first harmonized quality control (QC) guidance ...