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
- South Sudan: The Government, World Bank and FAO scale up actions to build farmers’ climate resilience in the face of flooding and other disaster risks
- Filipino community leader wins Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award 2024
- Forests face increasing climate-related stress amid growing demand for their products, FAO report warns
- FAO Investment Centre Annual Review: Showcasing the latest achievements while marking 60 years of support to the agrifood sector
- FAO Director-General visits Mongolia and DPRK reaffirming FAO’s commitments to supporting sustainable agrifood systems transformation in developing countries
- Sand and dust storms are more intense and frequent threating agriculture and communities
- Green Climate Fund approves $52 million to support FAO-led project in Malawi
- Upcoming UN hunger report presents a new approach to financing the end of food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
- Climate risks projected to affect fish biomass around the world's ocean, FAO report says
- FAO supports Caribbean governments after the impact of Hurricane Beryl
Climate
- Forests face increasing risk of wildfires and pests due to climate change
- World News in Brief: Bangladesh student protests, South Sudan attacks continue, opportunity knocks for climate action in Africa
- The triple planetary crisis: Global Foresight Report reveals global shifts
- World News in Brief: Sand and dust storm scourge, Mali humanitarian update, moving education online
- Digital boom could well be a bust for the environment, warns UN trade agency
- Earth’s hottest June on record
- UNESCO designates 11 new biosphere reserves
- Gaza war grinds on as forcibly displaced run out of space to shelter
- UN urges international solidarity as Hurricane Beryl devastates Caribbean islands
- Half the world now following doctors’ orders on cutting trans fats: WHO
Atmosphere
- Neural general circulation models for weather and climate
- Human-induced warming accelerates local evapotranspiration and precipitation recycling over the Tibetan Plateau
- Machine learning analysis of PM1 impact on visibility with comprehensive sensitivity evaluation of concentration, composition, and meteorological factors
- Synchronous Eurasian heat extremes tied to boreal summer combined extratropical intraseasonal waves
- Diversity of cross-pacific atmospheric river main routes
- Unconventional cold vortex as precursor to historic early summer heatwaves in North China 2023
- Atmosphere circulation patterns synchronize pan-Arctic glacier melt and permafrost thaw
- Drivers of future extratropical sea surface temperature variability changes in the North Pacific
- Mapping of 10-km daily diffuse solar radiation across China from reanalysis data and a Machine-Learning method
- Six years of high-resolution climatic data collected along an elevation gradient in the Italian Alps
Renewable sources
- Key Enablers to Triple Renewables by 2030: Policy and Regulations
- Tripling Renewables by 2030 Requires a Minimum of 16.4% Annual Growth Rate
- IRENA Opens Registration for Summer Youth Programme
- Bonn's 2024 International Energy Workshop Gave New Insights to Advance Global Energy Modelling
- First-Ever Global Renewables Summit Announced to Drive Action to Triple Renewable Power by 2030 and Advance Global Energy Transition during 79th UN General Assembly
- Africa50 Joins IRENA’s ETAF Platform to Accelerate Renewable Energy Deployment in Africa
- The Role of Sustainable Bioenergy in Supporting Climate and Development Goals
- IRENA Council Convenes Amidst UN Secretary General’s Call for Urgent Climate Action
- Progress on basic energy access reverses for first time in a decade
- IRENA Supports Ukraine in Rebuilding Damaged Energy Infrastructure