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
- At FAO Council, Director-General QU Dongyu calls for more visionary guidance for a better future for humanity
- Uganda’s Freza Nanotech wins FAO Innovation Award 2024 for pioneering fruit preservation technology
- Gaza: FAO calls for urgent access to deliver at-scale emergency agricultural aid to prevent spread of famine
- Resumed meetings of the UN Biodiversity Conference to be held at FAO headquarters, 25 - 27 February 2025
- New FAO report offers guidance and data on integrating nutrition goals into food trade policies
- COP16 Desertification Conference: In Riyadh, FAO joins global call for action to combat land degradation
- Helping produce more with less: FAO and IAEA mark 60-year partnership
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: FAO urges greater focus on humanitarian needs of vulnerable populations and implementation of at-scale programming to strengthen resilience against recurrent shocks
- FAO-WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts new standards
- FAO at COP29: Calling for investment in agrifood systems to tackle the climate crisis
Climate
- The ‘slow onset, silent killer:’ Droughts explained
- Three billion people globally impacted by land degradation
- Landmark climate change hearings represent largest ever case before world court
- Live updates: UN tackles desertification, drought and land regeneration
- Plastic pollution treaty negotiations adjourn in Busan, to resume next year
- What’s desertification? Experts hopeful devastating trend can be reversed
- Devastating 2024 Atlantic hurricane season ends, marked by record-setting storms
- Talks begin in South Korea to clinch ‘essential’ deal on plastics pollution
- COP29 agrees to $300 billion climate deal for developing countries; UN chief says he had ‘hoped for a more ambitious outcome’
- Preparing for climate chaos in Timor-Leste, one of the world’s most vulnerable nations
Atmosphere
- A positive atmospheric feedback on the North Atlantic warming hole
- Anthropogenic forcing intensified internally driven concurrent heatwaves in August 2022 across the Northern Hemisphere
- UV-dark polar ovals on Jupiter as tracers of magnetosphere–atmosphere connections
- Vertical structure and occurrence patterns of the cross-equatorial northerly surge under different ENSO and MJO phases
- A new global carbon flux estimation methodology by assimilation of both in situ and satellite CO2 observations
- Drying of the Martian mesosphere during aphelion induced by lower temperatures
- North Atlantic Extratropical Cyclone Tracks and Lagrangian-Derived Moisture Uptake Dataset
- Climate model trend errors are evident in seasonal forecasts at short leads
- A supersolar oxygen abundance supported by hydrodynamic modelling of Jupiter’s atmosphere
- Embedding machine-learnt sub-grid variability improves climate model precipitation patterns
Renewable sources
- IRENA NewGen 2024: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Drive Renewable Energy Solutions
- Strengthening Climate Action Through Partnerships and Advocacy at COP29
- Enhancing Commitment to Deep, Rapid and Sustained Emission Reductions – Alliance for Industry Decarbonization CEO High Level Dialog
- IRENA and Azerbaijan Unveil Renewable Energy Partnership for Central Asia at COP29
- Integrating UAE Consensus in National Climate Plans NDCs 3.0
- Global Utilities Back COP29 Pledge to Boost Grids and Storage in Strong Implementation Signal
- World Leaders Voice Support for Renewable Partnership in Africa at COP29
- Investment Takes Centerstage at COP29 Ministerial to Triple Renewables
- NDCs 3.0 a ‘Make or Break’ for Global Goal to Triple Renewables by 2030
- Honduras: #3xRenewables for climate resilience, energy access and community empowerment