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
- Director-General hails FAO employees for their dedication and resilience amid pandemic
- Southern Madagascar: Government and UN sound the alarm on famine risk, urge action
- Unlock and Unblock: twin track to boost food security in Africa
- FAO joins Morocco-led celebrations for the first UN International Day of Argania
- Science, technology and innovation are crucial to efforts aimed at transforming agri-food systems
- FAO will implement a new Nutrition Strategy to ensure healthy diets for all
- Urgent and scaled-up action needed to reduce suffering in South Sudan
- International food prices continue rising in April
- A high-tech response is helping countries win battle against Desert Locusts
- EU and FAO call for the transformation of agri-food systems
Climate
- Free up ‘bottlenecks’ stifling Africa’s agri-food sector – FAO chief
- Climate change threatens winged harbinger of spring
- Cut methane emissions to avert global temperature rise, UN-backed study urges
- Guterres renews zero-emissions appeal to avoid falling into climate abyss
- Increased cancer risk for petroleum industry workers and people living near plants: New UN study
- SDGs will address ‘three planetary crises’ harming life on Earth
- ‘Make or break moment’ for forests
- ECOSOC chief calls for financial support for small island developing states
- Climate change link to displacement of most vulnerable is clear: UNHCR
- The planet’s on ‘red alert’ UN chief warns leaders at President Biden’s climate summit
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 Members Commit to Top Up Global Hydropower Fleet
- Door to 1.5°C Still Open Says Francesco La Camera Following Biden Leaders Summit on Climate
- Leaders Summit: The Energy Transition Priorities Needed for a 1.5°C Future
- Eastern and Southern Africa's Vast Renewables Potential Offers Route to Sustainable Growth
- IRENA and China State Grid Agree to Advance Transition Through Power System Enhancements
- World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020
- IRENA's Francesco La Camera and US Climate Envoy John Kerry Meet to Discuss Energy Transition
- Permanent Representatives Discuss Accelerated Energy Transition in line with IRENA Outlook
- Wind and Solar Can Improve Energy Security and Independence in Albania
- Francesco La Camera: Prioritise just transition in net-zero policies