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
- FAO Director-General in visit to small-scale agricultural producers in southern Italy highlights sustainability best practices
- FAO and Italy inaugurate renovated FAO building
- FAO Director-General tells G20: to have healthy food, we need a healthy environment
- FAO and the Republic of Korea join forces to reduce foodborne antimicrobial resistance
- FAO and Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences take partnership to the next level
- FAO Director-General: The future of food belongs to the young people of today
- Increasing legality and transparency in the timber trade
- Engaging youth to secure the sustainable future of food
- Window for planting in northern Ethiopia narrows as hunger catastrophe looms
- 7 billion trees outside forests in Africa reported for the first time in new data survey
Climate
- Water-related hazards dominate list of 10 most destructive disasters
- FAO head urges G20 to invest in a healthy planet for healthy food
- FROM THE FIELD: Cameroon’s displaced, get hooked on fish
- Deadly flooding, heatwaves in Europe, highlight urgency of climate action
- EU urged to consider impact of new climate mechanism on developing countries
- UN body unveils new plan to overturn ecological destruction, ‘preserve and protect nature’
- Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line
- Japan: UN chief praises work of emergency responders in wake of deadly landslide
- Record-breaking ‘pressure-cooker’ heatwave hits Canada, US northwest
- The trillion dollar climate finance challenge (and opportunity)
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 Outlines Action Agenda on Offshore Renewables for G20
- IRENA and the Electric Power Research Institute Join Forces to Accelerate Smart Electrification
- Revised Power Plans Can Speed Up Southern and Eastern Africa’s Energy Transitions
- How Solar Power is Reducing Maternal Mortality Rates in Zimbabwe
- Innovation Will Drive the Energy Transition
- IRENA’s World Energy Transitions Outlook Re-Writes Energy Narrative for a Net Zero World
- Energy Transition Heroes Address Equity and Climate Challenges
- IRENA and China Sign Landmark Co-operation to Address Climate Change
- Majority of New Renewables Undercut Cheapest Fossil Fuel on Cost
- Infographic: Low Renewable Costs Allow To Power Past Coal