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.
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News
Agriculture
- Latin America and the Caribbean are “pillar for world food security”
- Fight against fall armyworm: good progress, more efforts needed
- FAO and the African Union Commission launch a guide to help countries enter Africa's new single market
- Food Coalition gains momentum as food security is featured on the G20 agenda
- FAO Director-General QU Dongyu designates European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet FAO Goodwill Ambassador
- Signs of hope in East Africa, as control campaign tames locust upsurge
- FAO's flagship Hand-In-Hand initiative aimed at eradicating poverty and hunger builds momentum
- Global food prices rise for 10th month in a row
- Global initiative tackles marine litter to clean up the world’s oceans
- Scale of acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “staggering”, FAO, WFP warn
Climate
- Guterres urges cities to embrace ‘generational opportunity’ for climate action, sustainable development
- UN atomic energy agency to work with Japan on Fukushima water disposal
- FROM THE FIELD: Solar energy powers COVID-19 treatment
- Paris goals still ‘long way off’, says President of UN climate conference
- New project to help 30 developing countries tackle marine litter scourge
- Renewable energy access key to climate adaptation in Africa: UN chief
- Climate change top challenge over the next decade, UNESCO global survey finds
- More climate action needed during ‘make-or-break year’ for people and planet
- Plastic pollution disproportionately hitting marginalized groups, UN environment report finds
- Guterres calls on US to lead global vaccination plan effort, climate action
Atmosphere
- Quantifying monsoon uncertainty
- Small lightning flashes from shallow electrical storms on Jupiter
- Author Correction: Increased impacts on US West Coast
- Diurnal self-aggregation
- Inter- and intra-annual wind speed variabilities in wide valley regions of the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, China
- Importance of a vertically tilting structure for energizing the North Atlantic Oscillation
- Night-time measurements of astronomical seeing at Dome A in Antarctica
- Aerosol-driven seasonality
- North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply
- Transport pathways across the West African Monsoon as revealed by Lagrangian Coherent Structures
Renewable sources
- Eastern and Southern Africa's Vast Renewables Potential Offers Route to Sustainable Growth
- IRENA and China State Grid Agree to Advance Transition Through Power System Enhancements
- World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020
- IRENA's Francesco La Camera and US Climate Envoy John Kerry Meet to Discuss Energy Transition
- Permanent Representatives Discuss Accelerated Energy Transition in line with IRENA Outlook
- Wind and Solar Can Improve Energy Security and Independence in Albania
- How Renewables Offer New Solutions for District Heating and Cooling
- Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
- Renewables Can Lower Energy Costs and Boost Energy Security in Antigua and Barbuda
- The IDB and IRENA Foster a Sustainable Energy Future in Latin America and the Caribbean