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
- World food prices drop in March
- Mitigating impacts of COVID-19 on food trade and markets
- A battle plan for ensuring global food supplies during the COVID-19 crisis
- FAO Director-General urges G20 to ensure that food value chains are not disrupted during COVID-19 pandemic
- FAO hand in hand with Italy in the fight against COVID-19
- UN fast tracks $10 million loan to help scale up FAO action to fight Desert Locusts
- FAO leads the way to clearer peatland mapping and monitoring
- Green Climate Fund approves a $119 million climate resilient project for Cuba
- Traditional farming system in Brazil added to global agricultural heritage list
- FAO prioritizes staff wellbeing in the fight to contain COVID-19
Climate
- First person: COVID-19 is not a silver lining for the climate, says UN Environment chief
- Key COP26 climate summit postponed to ‘safeguard lives’
- COVID-19 effect casts cloud over weather alert accuracy: UN sky watchers
- First Person: Humankind’s ‘modern mentality to tame’ the environment: A volcanologist’s view
- ‘Count every drop, every drop counts’: UN weather agency calls for better water data on World Meteorological Day
- World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are essential part of solution to climate change
- Turn around deforestation in 2020, the ‘Nature Super Year’, says Guterres
- FIRST PERSON: The ‘inseparable bond’ between Hawaiian culture and native plants
- Blueprint launched to manage Earth’s fragile peatland carbon sinks
- New report from UN Economic Commission for Europe measures progress on Global Goals
Atmosphere
- On the widespread enhancement in fine particulate matter across the Indo-Gangetic Plain towards winter
- Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset
- The trends in land surface heat fluxes over global monsoon domains and their responses to monsoon and precipitation
- A pause in Southern Hemisphere circulation trends due to the Montreal Protocol
- Feedbacks and eddy diffusivity in an energy balance model of tropical rainfall shifts
- Mechanisms of multiyear variations of Northern Australia wet-season rainfall
- Emergence of unprecedented climate change in projected future precipitation
- Future continental summer warming constrained by the present-day seasonal cycle of surface hydrology
- Daily GRACE satellite data evaluate short-term hydro-meteorological fluxes from global atmospheric reanalyses
- Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change
Renewable sources
- The Investment Case for Energy Transition in Africa
- Battery Storage Paves Way for a Renewable-powered Future
- IRENA Director-General Statement on Oil Prices and Impact on the Renewable Energy Sector
- Measures to Strengthen Preparedness and Continuity of Operations in Response to COVID-19
- IRENA Invites Renewable Energy Developers to Register Projects on Investment Platform
- Financing the Global Energy Transformation: Green Bonds
- IRENA and UN-Habitat Join Efforts to Accelerate Global Energy Transition in Cities
- Discussions on Sustainable Aviation Take Place in Abu Dhabi
- Francesco La Camera Welcomes President of Burkina Faso H.E. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
- CDP and IRENA Sign an Agreement on Renewable Energy in Developing Countries