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FAO/IAEA Partnership for Food Security: High Impact of Nuclear Applications on the Ground
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Friday 27 March, 13:30-14:30, Iran Room
FAO/IAEA Partnership for Food Security:
High Impact of Nuclear Applications on the Ground About the event: The side event will highlight impacts in Member States generated through the FAO/IAEA partnership in addressing national and regional priorities. | Purpose: The side event will show how the FAO/IAEA partnership has improved efficiency, sustainability and impact in the field. Uniquely, this side event will offer a field-level view from and by member countries on what the Joint FAO/IAEA Division’s expertise, technical support and technology transfer means to them, including small-scale and often poor farming communities. | Responsible office: AGED | Languages: | English, French and Spanish | Tentative agenda: | 13:30-13:35 | Welcome & Statement by DDG NR or ADG AG | | | 13:35-13:40 | Presentation on the FAO/IAEA Partnership | Qu Liang | Director, Joint FAO/IAEA Division, AUSTRIA | 13:40-13:50 | Statement by Representative of Spain on Fruit Fly SIT | Vicente Dalmau Sorlí | Project Leader, Plant Protection Services, Government of Valencia, SPAIN | 13:50-14:00 | Statement by Representative of Senegal on Tsetse SIT | Baba Sall | Head, Animal Health Section, Direction des Services Vétérinaires, Dakar, SENEGAL | 14:00-14:10 | Statement by Representative of South Africa on the African VetLab Network | Lydia Greyling | Minister Plenipotentiary of the South African Embassy and Permanent Mission in Vienna, SOUTH AFRICA | 14:10-14:20 | Statement by Representative of China on Nuclear Applications in Food and Agriculture | Jingyuan Xia | Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome, CHINA | 14:20-14:25 | Statement by Representative of Viet Nam on Crop Improvement | Huy Ham Le | Director, Agronomical Genetics Institute, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Hanoi, VIET NAM | 14:25-14:30 | Discussion | | | | Twitter hashtag:
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