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: Youth at the forefront as 2025 World Food Forum opens in Rome
- WFF 2025: Pioneering a common future for humankind at the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems
- World Food Forum 2025 kicks off as FAO celebrates its 80th anniversary
- “From Seeds to Foods” opens in Rome as FAO marks 80 years of global action
- FAO to inaugurate new Food and Agriculture Museum & Network in Rome
- Global exhibition “From Seeds to Foods” kicks off FAO’s 80th Anniversary celebrations
- FAO Food Price Index declined slightly in September
- Building safe, sustainable, and equitable animal feed systems
- FAO commits to new animal health and sustainability plans
- Targeted investments to combat food loss and waste and generate triple wins
Climate
- Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, says UN Secretary-General on International Day
- Ministers from Europe and beyond commit to address housing emergency
- Guterres urges countries to ‘seize this historic opportunity’ as renewable energy use grows
- ‘The extraordinary power of ordinary people’: World leaders spotlight youth as agents of progress
- Shipping faces ‘stormy seas’ as trade slows and costs rise
- New national climate plans unveiled at high-level summit ahead of COP30 conference
- Sinking islands, vanishing forests: World leaders call for urgent climate action
- Climate Summit 2025: The path to COP30
- UN ‘high seas’ treaty clears ratification threshold, to enter into force in January
- ‘No end’ expected to floods and storms as global heating continues
Atmosphere
- Synoptic systems influence the effectiveness of spectral nudging in high-resolution simulations of extreme precipitation
- Moisture and temperature sources were key drivers of the anomalies for the record-breaking of 2023 Amazon drought
- On the importance of the flow field in inexpensive optical aerosol particle counting and sizing
- Causal pathways underlying global soil moisture–precipitation coupling
- Reply to: Observed warming of cold extremes is not captured with a fixed threshold definition
- Patagonian Ice Sheet shaped regional climate during the Last Glacial Maximum
- Enhanced significant wave height prediction in the Southern Ocean using an ANFIS model optimized with subtractive clustering
- How seas whisper to snow: teleconnections drive spatio–temporal variability of snow cover in Western Himalayas
- Arctic stratospheric ozone as a precursor of ENSO events since 2000s
- Physics of North Indian Ocean tropical cyclones
Renewable sources
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and IRENA Join Forces to Advance Renewable Solutions That Work for Nature and People
- Women’s Share of the Renewable Energy Workforce Remains at 32%
- IRENA NewGen 2025: More Youth Entrepreneurs Empowered to Drive Clean Energy Solutions
- Leading Power Sector Companies Reveal Blueprint for Infrastructure Upgrade
- Sustainable Aviation Fuels Projects to Gain New Support Through IRENA–ICAO Collaboration
- Leaders of Governments and Businesses Commit to Accelerate Renewable Energy Abundance
- World Leaders Gather in New York to Drive Urgent Action on Renewable Energy
- 29th IRENA Council to Advance Global Dialogue on Energy Security and Supply Chains
- Offshore Wind: From 83 GW Today to 2,000 GW by 2050
- Six Principles to Ensure the Energy Transition Is in Harmony with Nature