![]() This initiative will seek to complement the work of the IAEA through close coordination with IAEA programs, drawing upon the IAEA’s expertise in providing nuclear science-based assistance to help meet the world’s energy, health, and agricultural needs. The Sustained Dialogue initiative will focus on promoting peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology to increase food security, fight cancer, and tackle challenges from climate change. Visual representation of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, courtesy of the UN’s website. CRDF Global is an independent nonprofit organization that works to build a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world through science and innovation in collaboration with international partners. At the Review Conference, we, in partnership with the United Kingdom and with support from 29 other countries, launched the new “Sustained Dialogue on Peaceful Uses,” and in September, we awarded $3.9 million to CRDF Global under a cooperative agreement to facilitate activities under this new initiative. For many years, the United States has been the largest contributor to the IAEA’s peaceful uses programs, including the Peaceful Uses Initiative, providing over $395 million in support to IAEA peaceful uses efforts since 2015.Īt the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York in August 2022, we promised to do even more. Nuclear applications are playing a transformational role in many countries’ ability to improve the lives of their citizens, advancing human health and addressing the challenges of climate change and world hunger.įor this reason, the United States is once again increasing its efforts to expand developing countries’ access to peaceful nuclear technology. Since the 1950s, the United States has been working with the IAEA to bring the benefits of peaceful nuclear technologies to underserved and underdeveloped countries. Peru’s barley crops are just one example of how the peaceful application of nuclear science and technology can improve the quality of life for millions of people. These mutations led to a new strain that farmers use today which is more nutritious and resistant to the harsh growing conditions found in the Peruvian Andes. Researchers relied on nuclear radiation techniques to treat barley seeds which promoted beneficial mutations. So, in the 1970s, in partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) division of nuclear techniques in food and agriculture, the Universidad Nacional Agraria de La Molina began using plant breeding techniques to bring improved varieties of barley to the highlands. However, people living in high altitude environments often had to come down to the valleys to buy their grains because the locally sourced crops were low in quality and had poor yields. Advisory Commission on Public DiplomacyĮver since its introduction to Peru in the 1500s, barley has been one the country’s most important staple crops, capable of growing in the dry and rugged terrain of the Andean Mountain nation. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.Bureau of International Organization Affairs.Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.Office of Management Strategy and Solutions.Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.Bureau of Information Resource Management.Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services.Office of the Science and Technology Adviser.Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment.Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.Office of International Religious Freedom.Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. ![]() Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance.Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.Arms Control and International Security.Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources.Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority Special Representative for Syria Engagement.Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.Special Coordinator for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology.Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy.
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