{"id":40993,"date":"2025-11-20T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/recursos-educativos\/tecnologia-nuclear-combate-hambre-garantiza-seguridad-alimentaria\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:49:55","slug":"nuclear-technology-fights-hunger-and-ensures-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"re_recurso","link":"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-technology-fights-hunger-and-ensures-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Technology Fights Hunger and Ensures Food Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nuclear science and technology can help combat hunger and malnutrition, as well as improve food security and food safety.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"139\" src=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hambre.jpg\" alt=\"La energ\u00eda nuclear combate el hambre\" class=\"wp-image-37455\" style=\"width:403px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There are various ways to do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sustainable agricultural practices developed with the help of nuclear technology:<\/strong><ul><li>To help farmers <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/application-nuclear-techniques-drip-irrigation-increase-food-crop-yields\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conserve water resources in the soil and crops,<\/a> thereby reducing the likelihood of crop failure and ensuring higher yields from their land<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-techniques-tsetse-eradication-senegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Protecting livestock from insects such as the tsetse fly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/sterile-insect-technique-sit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Protecting plants from harmful insect pests<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/balanced-use-fertiliser-nuclear-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Improving productivity through the balanced use of fertiliser<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/fighting-hunger-mutation-breeding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Producing more food by using new plant varieties that are disease-resistant and can withstand changes in climatic conditions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-technology-improve-animal-breeding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Improving animal husbandry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nuclear techniques, such as irradiation, can help preserve food quality, extend shelf life, and ensure food safety during the preparation of food products for consumption<\/strong>. Furthermore, they <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-magnetic-resonance-makes-possible-distinguish-wines-different-lands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can be used to inspect food to verify that it is free of contaminants and to ensure its authenticity,<\/a> thereby preventing food fraud and facilitating exports, thereby helping to increase farmers\u2019 incomes and boost the national economy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hunger and malnutrition often stem from food insecurity and agricultural challenges<\/strong>, which undermine well-being and put a strain on economies. Using stable isotope techniques, health professionals can <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-technology-improve-nutrition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monitor body composition and food intake and absorption<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/monitoring-exclusive-maternal-breastfeeding-using-nuclear-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monitor breastfeeding<\/a>, to better understand the complexities of <a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/fighting-malnutrition-nuclear-techniques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">malnutrition and whether treatment and prevention measures are effective<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/topics\/assessing-health-effects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Econutrition<\/a>\u201d project, carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), aims to understand the interactions between nutrition and the environment using stable isotope techniques.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/services\/key-programmes\/atoms4food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atoms4Food<\/a> initiative in 2023 to help countries increase food security and tackle rising hunger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to find out more, take a look at the article: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rinconeducativo.org\/en\/recursos-educativos\/nuclear-technology-essential-achieve-sdg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nuclear technology: essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear science and technology can help combat hunger and malnutrition, as well as improve food security and food safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":37456,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[7652,8227,8471],"edad":[7139,7161,7137,7140],"recursos_tipo":[7270],"recursos_tema":[7171,7170],"clasificacion_anterior":[],"class_list":["post-40993","re_recurso","type-re_recurso","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cambio-climatico-en","tag-environment-en","tag-nuclear-technology-applications","edad-mas-16-en","edad-06-12-years-old","edad-de-12-a-16-en","edad-todas-las-edades-en","recursos_tipo-theory","recursos_tema-agri-food","recursos_tema-applications"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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