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 urges G20 to support farmers, protect the vulnerable and invest in innovation
- World leaders join forces to fight the accelerating crisis of antimicrobial resistance
- New partnership to boost bamboo and rattan’s contribution to sustainable development
- Drug-resistant infections threaten to become next pandemic
- Global Climate Fund approves $160 million to support FAO-led projects
- FAO's Food Outlook: Developing countries buoy global food trade
- FAO calls for making agri-food systems and green spaces part of urban plans
- Global Food Security Cluster turns 10: ending hunger is everyone’s job
- UN food agencies warn of rising levels of acute hunger with potential risk of famine in four hotspots
- FAO launches Food Coalition to lift food access, sustainable agri-food systems
Climate
- Carbon dioxide levels hit new record; COVID impact ‘a tiny blip’, WMO says
- Climate crisis: ‘Nowhere near the finish line’ – UN chief
- UN warns of catastrophe as second hurricane in two weeks hits Central America
- Climate change: UN chief calls for ‘great leap’ towards carbon neutrality
- A deep dive into Zero Hunger: farming the seas
- A deep dive into Zero Hunger: the seaweed revolution
- COVID disruption will ‘pale in comparison’ if world fails to act on climate change, SDGs
- UN chief stresses need for greater speed to achieve carbon neutrality
- Climate Action Superheroes empower children to protect the planet
- UN and partners express regret over US departure from Paris climate accord
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 and GWEC Enhance Cooperation to Scale Up Renewables Globally
- The East African Rift: Realising the Region’s Geothermal Potential
- "Race to Zero" Energy Day Concludes with Call to Act on Energy Transition
- Tripling Renewables Investment to Reach Climate Goal
- Institutional Capital: Closing the Energy Transformation Investment Gap
- IRENA and SIDS DOCK Sign Agreement to Reinforce Small Island Climate Resilience
- IRENA drives UN Climate Action Pathway on Energy
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- IRENA's 19th and 20th Council Meetings Conclude
- IRENA Council Meets as Agency Renews Call for Recovery Built around Energy Transformation