Climate, environment and sustainable agriculture
Meteorology and Agrometeorology
3a has extensive experience in weather monitoring and in the processing and analysis of meteorological data.
Phytopathological modeling
3a develops phytopathological forecasting models based on the best available scientific literature.
Integrated agriculture platform
Green Planet is a multilingual and multi-user platform that supports agricultural choices by collecting, analyzing and disseminating field data.
Risk reduction in rural areas
An integrated information system to increase the resilience and sustainability of rural economies.
Irrigation management
An irrigation management system for sustainable agriculture.
Management consulting and digitalization
Directorate support for the definition of business objectives.
News
Agriculture
- WFF 2025: Green Cities Conference adopts Communiqué, principles and criteria for greener future cities
- New FAO-EU initiative will boost vulnerable populations’ access to aquatic foods
- Global deforestation slows, but forests remain under pressure, FAO report shows
- Junior World Food Day: FAO inspires young people with celebrity cooking show
- World Food Forum 2025 concludes with renewed global commitment to transform agrifood systems through solidarity, science, and investment
- Pope Leo XIV and world leaders mark World Food Day and FAO at 80 in Rome
- FAO and Italy unveil commemorative postal stamp marking the Organization’s 80th anniversary
- Chef Fatmata Binta designated FAO Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa
- FAO inaugurates new Food and Agriculture Museum & Network in Rome
- WFF 2025: Special event boosts momentum for the implementation of the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) Initiative
Climate
- Rising seas, rising stakes: What increasing sea-levels mean to humanity
- ‘Immense impact’ of Nepal flood disaster highlighted as casualties mount
- As the Himalayas melt, deadly floods become the new normal
- Shock and devastation remain, a day after Himalayan flood disaster
- Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods
- Japan’s ‘2050 Weather Forecast’ highlights extreme heat in the future
- Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief
- Can restoring land create jobs? These young entrepreneurs are proving it
- The clean energy transition needs land. Can it help restore it too?
- Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification
Atmosphere
- Weak, shallow, dry convection over Angola increases offshore stratocumulus cloud droplet number concentrations
- Coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability disrupted by 19th century volcanism
- Reply to: Uncertain internal variability in Arctic warming
- Convective “butterflies” lead to tropical cyclone rapid intensification
- Intense storms increase global ice area
- Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss
- Multi-decadal high-resolution historical simulations with the ECMWF global atmosphere model
- Stratospheric impacts on Eurasian soil moisture on subseasonal timescales
- Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI
- Coupled air–sea interactions drove and sustained the 2013–2016 North Pacific marine heatwave
Renewable sources
- Data-Driven Energy Planning for Universal Access: The Senegal Experience
- Three Ways Renewable Energy is Critical for the Industries of Tomorrow
- Powering Sustainable Economies in Latin America’s Remote Communities
- The Sustainable Economic Opportunity Behind End-of-Life Solar Panels
- Geothermal Energy in Latin America: Turning Potential into Energy Security
- IRENA Issues Call for Renewable Energy Projects in Central America and the Caribbean
- Local Pathways, Global Energy Transition
- Renewable Power Generation Records Its Fastest Growth Ever
- Infographic: Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2025
- USD 480 Billion Fossil-Fuel Costs Avoided by Renewable Energy Boom in 2025