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 Council opens by highlighting the Organization’s comparative advantage in facing today’s global challenges
- Camelids take centre stage: FAO launches International Year to recognize their global impact
- COP28: At climate summit’s first-ever Health Day, FAO highlights interconnected challenges of malnutrition and climate change
- COP28: New AIIB-FAO partnership to boost rural infrastructure development to transform agrifood systems
- COP28: FAO Director-General highlights the role of finance and science in agrifood systems for transformation and prosperity in Africa
- COP28: Resilient and healthy mountain systems are key to climate change adaptation and mitigation
- COP28: Fighting AMR requires action on the ground, Qu says
- COP28: FAO underlines importance of working together with partners in Pakistan’s Living Indus Initiative
- COP28 must be a ‘game changer’ for agrifood systems, FAO Director-General urges
- COP28: Global agrifood systems are the climate solution, FAO Director-General tells world leaders
Climate
- COP28: Bring the vulnerable to ‘front of the line’ for climate funding
- COP28: Women and climate advocates driving forward change together
- World News in Brief: Somalia floods, Sudan cholera update, genocide prevention
- COP28: Methane pledge by the ‘giants behind the climate crisis’ falls short, says Guterres
- COP28: The climate crisis is also a health crisis
- COP28: UN chief previews panel on management of minerals essential for green energy transition
- Tackling health impacts of climate change and scaling up digital climate action in the spotlight at COP28
- Global agrifood systems are the climate solution, new FAO report highlights
- Unprecedented drought emergency demands urgent action
- COP28: As ‘humanity’s fate hangs in the balance’, UN chief calls for urgent action to prevent planetary crash
Atmosphere
- Record-high Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and surface melt in February 2022: a compound event with an intense atmospheric river
- Cooling Himalayan glaciers
- Temporal coherence in particulate matter in East Asian outflow regions: fingerprints of ENSO and Asian dust
- A shift towards broader and less persistent Southern Hemisphere temperature anomalies
- Reconstructing aerosol optical depth using spatiotemporal Long Short-Term Memory convolutional autoencoder
- Fast upper-level jet stream winds get faster under climate change
- Transport and deposition of ocean-sourced microplastic particles by a North Atlantic hurricane
- Author Correction: Enhanced multi-year predictability after El Niño and La Niña events
- Ocean fronts as decadal thermostats modulating continental warming hiatus
- Multi-decadal variability controls short-term stratospheric water vapor trends
Renewable sources
- Renewables Receive Major Boost with Pledges to IRENA's ETAF Platform Exceeding USD 4 Billion
- IRENA and UAE Launch Initiative at COP28 to Empower Lives and Livelihoods
- IRENA and World Meteorological Organization Launch Report on Renewable Energy and Climate Variability
- IRENA Call to Triple Renewables by 2030 Becomes a Key Commitment at COP28
- IRENA Call to Tripple Renewables by 2030 Becomes a Key Commitment at COP28
- Heads of State Accelerate the Partnership for Renewables in Africa at COP28
- Transitioning Remote Communities to Renewables
- Accelerated Energy Transition Can Add 40 million Energy Sector Jobs by 2050
- IRENA and DP World Join Forces to Advance Decarbonisation Solutions for Ports and Maritime Logistics
- Implementing Regulations Can Turn Honduras’ Renewables Ambition into Reality