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
- Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
- Gaza Strip: 98.5 percent of cropland unavailable for cultivation as famine looms
- FAO Food Price Index edges up in July
- Afghanistan: FAO and UK launch GBP 10 million initiative to boost rural resilience and food security
- UN agencies warn key food and nutrition indicators exceed famine thresholds in Gaza
- SOFI 2025: FAO calls for urgent, coordinated and inclusive action to end global hunger
- FAO at UNFSS+4: Time to accelerate the agrifood systems transformation
- Beating hunger through social protection, investments and resilience: FAO Chief Economist
- Hunger declines globally, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report
- FAO Director-General: Transforming the global coffee value chain is more than just an economic necessity
Climate
- UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
- Momentum builds towards marine biodiversity treaty, as experts convene in New York
- Monsoon floods kill more than 700 in Pakistan, with heavy rains set to continue
- Plastic pollution talks adjourn, but countries want to stay engaged: UNEP chief
- Peacekeepers find weapons trove in southern Lebanon, as drought threatens millions
- How nuclear technology can help fight seafood fraud
- Preparing for the next flood: Protecting women’s health in Bangladesh
- Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities
- Extreme heat is breaking records worldwide: UN weather agency
- The world is demanding action over plastic pollution: UN environment chief
Atmosphere
- A climatological baseline for understanding patterns of seasonal lake dynamics across sub-Sahelian Africa
- Ocean variability drives a millennial-scale shift in South Pacific hydroclimate
- Decadal predictability of summer precipitation in Northwestern China originated from the North Atlantic Ocean
- Contrasting historical trends of atmospheric rivers in the Northern Hemisphere
- Unveiling diurnal metamorphosis in the atmospheric boundary layer during an annular solar eclipse through large eddy simulations
- Increasing tropical cyclone residence time along the Chinese coastline driven by track rotation
- Microphysics at work on a rogue planet
- Recent asymmetric tropical ocean warming has altered regional propagation of Madden-Julian Oscillation
- Fine and coarse aerosols control of cloud water by evaporation-precipitation dynamics
- Human emissions drive recent trends in North Pacific climate variations
Renewable sources
- Five key policies to promote road transport electrification in developing markets
- Green hydrogen and derived commodities: an opportunity for Global South’s green industrialisation
- Unlocking the Potential of High-Renewable Power Systems with Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
- IRENA’s New Podcast Series "All Things Renewable" Goes Live
- 91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives
- Infographic: Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024
- Renewables Boom Highlights Growing Regional Divide
- How Decentralised Renewables Transform Healthcare Services in Rural Zimbabwe
- IRENA Launches Call for Projects Ahead of the Second APRA Investment Forum in Sierra Leone
- Energy Access Has Improved, Yet International Financial Support Still Needed to Boost Progress and Address Disparities