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
- UN report: As the world’s forests continue to shrink, urgent action is needed to safeguard their biodiversity
- FAO Director-General says the fight against Desert Locusts will take time, despite significant control gains
- First International Tea Day sees call for joint action to ensure sustainability of tea sector
- World Bee Day 2020: FAO calls for more to be done to safeguard our tiny food heroes, amid alarming decline
- FAO needs $350 million to avert rising hunger as countries reel from COVID-19 pandemic’s impact
- FAO makes gains in the fight against Desert Locusts in East Africa and Yemen but threat of a food security crisis remains
- Global food commodity prices drop further in April
- Forest loss slows globally as sustainable management grows
- COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
- Despite the threat of COVID-19 pandemic, FAO’s work in Syria carries on – helping farmers grow food and get back on their feet
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
- Significant Day-time Ionospheric Perturbation by Thunderstorms along the West African and Congo Sector of Equatorial Region
- Changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature variability shaped by regional warming patterns
- Publisher Correction: Reduced European aerosol emissions suppress winter extremes over northern Eurasia
- Multilayer hazes over Saturn’s hexagon from Cassini ISS limb images
- Determination of Cloud-top Height through Three-dimensional Cloud Reconstruction using DIWATA-1 Data
- On the interchangeability of sea-surface and near-surface air temperature anomalies in climatologies
- Synchronized tropical Pacific and extratropical variability during the past three decades
- Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America
- Sea-spray regulates sulfate cloud droplet activation over oceans
- On the widespread enhancement in fine particulate matter across the Indo-Gangetic Plain towards winter
Renewable sources
- Energy Transition at the Heart of Africa’s COVID-19 Response say High-Level Dialogue Participants
- IRENA and UAE Mission Co-host First Session of ‘Renewables Talk’
- IRENA and ESCAP Step Up Joint Efforts to Support Asia-Pacific’s Crisis Response
- GROWTH@IRENA Traineeship Programme 2020
- IRENA's Coalition for Action Calls for Green Recovery Based on Renewables
- Renewable Energy Can Support Resilient and Equitable Recovery
- Beyond crisis: Renewable energy for a low-carbon future
- African Union and IRENA to Advance Renewables in Response to COVID-19
- IRENA Reschedules the Nineteenth Council Meeting
- Staying on Course: Renewable Energy in the Time of COVID-19