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.
Highlighted
News
Agriculture
- Innovation key to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change
- Promoting food systems transformation in the Mediterranean towards 2030
- FAO pledges intensified action to end child labour in agriculture
- FAO Director-General highlights how to build an advanced society with green, innovative, competitive and sustainable development
- UN agencies warn that COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the Pacific
- Innovation to counter food supply-chain disruptions and spur recovery
- East Africa's locust "air force" could be grounded, as another wave of the scourge takes flight
- Eradication of Peste des petits ruminants disease in sight
- One Planet – FAO’s work on biodiversity, One Health and climate
- Small towns are bigger than we think
Climate
- Scale up funding for climate adaptation programmes, Guterres urges
- FROM THE FIELD: The microscopic creatures helping build Africa’s Great Green Wall
- Secretary-General welcomes US return to Paris Agreement on Climate Change
- 2020, one of three warmest years on record: World Meteorological Organization
- Countries have plans, but lack money to implement climate change adaptation: UN report
- UN chief calls for ‘urgent transition’ from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- COVID-19 recovery offers ‘chance to change course’, Guterres tells One Planet Summit
- State of the ocean will ‘ultimately determine the survival of our species’: UN Special Envoy
- FROM THE FIELD: Laos villages transformed by solar power
- FROM THE FIELD: Mapping coral reefs from space
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
- IRENA Members Endorse Launch of Global High-Level Forum on Energy Transition
- How to Scale up Green Hydrogen
- IRENA Eleventh Assembly Live Day 2
- Small Islands, Big Impact
- IRENA Eleventh Assembly Live Day 1
- IRENA’s World Energy Transition Day to Kick-Start Crucial Assembly Meeting
- IRENA Launches Spring Virtual Renewable Energy Training
- IRENA Pre-Assembly Live Coverage
- FAO and IRENA Join Forces to Boost Renewables in Food and Agriculture
- Engaging the ‘Climate’ Generation in Global Energy Transition