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
- Global food prices rise in July
- FAO-led global COVID-19 Food Coalition gains momentum
- IKEA Foundation contributes $3.5 million to support FAO's work with refugees and host communities in eastern Africa
- FAO unveils platform to help accelerate action on reducing food loss and waste
- Kenya beats back desert locust upsurge for now, but East Africa remains at risk
- FAO and Russian Federation sign Contribution Agreement to ramp up fight against desert locusts, help affected communities
- United Kingdom supports FAO's desert locust-fighting efforts with £ 17 million contribution
- FAO and Islamic Development Bank strengthen partnership with new cooperation agreement
- Yemen sees return to alarming levels of food insecurity
- World's most comprehensive analysis of forest resources launched today in an innovative format
Climate
- Shrinking forests need bold action to safeguard their biodiversity
- Build back better and preserve biodiversity after COVID-19 pandemic: UN chief
- FROM THE FIELD: Nature ‘strongest ally’ to building sustainable planet
- Cultivating a taste for traditional crops in Hawaii
- Deadly gas leak in India, grim wake-up call for global chemical industry: UN rights expert
- UN sustainable energy project in Ukraine finds a new role: fighting COVID-19
- Moving towards 100% renewable power (with a little help from sheep)
- FROM THE FIELD: Women act as ‘agents of change’ in climate emergency
- Parallel threats of COVID-19 and climate change require ‘brave, visionary and collaborative leadership’, says UN chief
- Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change - UN weather agency chief
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 develops guidelines for cooperation with the private sector
- Winner of IRENA Youth Video Contest Announced
- 30 Innovative Solutions Show Path to Renewable-Powered Future
- Innovation - A Game Changer for Power System Flexibility
- MPs Discuss How Renewables Can Address COVID-19 and Support Development Goals
- IRENA Outlines Key Actions Needed to Accelerate Renewables in Lebanon
- OLADE and IRENA Put Renewables at Heart of Economic Recovery in Latin America and Caribbean
- ADGM Inks Partnership with IRENA to Promote Sustainable Finance
- IRENA Puts Energy Transformation at Heart of Sustainable Recovery Agenda
- Meet the Permanent Representative of Uganda to IRENA