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
- FAO and WFP early warning report reveals worsening hunger in 13 hotspots; five with immediate risk of starvation
- Conflict, displacement and disease drive food insecurity and malnutrition to alarming levels in parts of South Sudan
- FAO Food Outlook: Global output of key food commodity crops on course for new records
- Make the ocean blue again: UN recognizes World Restoration Flagships in East Africa, Mexico, and Spain
- FAO releases the most detailed global assessment of marine fish stocks to date
- UN Ocean Conference: Youth must drive transformation for aquatic foods to feed billions more people, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu says
- FAO Food Price Index dips in May amid lower cereal, sugar and vegetable oil prices
- New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100
- Ukraine: rural communities need immediate support to plant and produce food amid ongoing war
- Astana International Forum: FAO calls for increased investment to unlock Central Asia’s potential and address regional challenges
Climate
- UN ocean summit closes in Nice with wave of commitments
- Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice
- ‘No Ocean Declaration without small islands’: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
- ‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice
- Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO
- Greed is driving oceans toward collapse
- The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume?
- No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future
- Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France
- Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
Atmosphere
- Deep chemical weathering on ancient Mars landscapes driven by erosional and climatic patterns
- Northern ecosystem productivity reduced by Rossby-wave-driven hot–dry conditions
- Perchlorate brine formation from frost at the Viking 2 landing site
- Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery
- Atmospheric and oceanic drivers behind the 2023 Canadian wildfires
- Deciphering the capricious precipitation response: irrigation impact in the North China Plain
- Impact of mean state on intermodel spread of western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone during El Niño mature winter in CMIP6 models
- Asymmetric response of the Western North Pacific tropical cyclone genesis to symmetric CO2 pathway
- Experimental study of folded metal mesh for efficient fog harvesting
- SiO and a super-stellar C/O ratio in the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet WASP-121 b
Renewable sources
- Five Key Takeaways from the IRENA Innovation Week 2025
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 3
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 2
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 1
- Brasil e IRENA sediarão a primeira Cúpula Global de Planejamento Energético
- IRENA and Brazil to Host First Global Energy Planning Summit
- Strategies for Resilience - Ensuring Renewable Power Systems' Readiness to Face Extreme Weather
- IRENA Issues Call for Renewable Energy Projects in Central Asia
- I ACT: Building Youth’s Capacity Through Peer-to-Peer Learning
- How to Decarbonise Global Transport and Industry?