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
- Global success in plant breeding celebrated by FAO and IAEA
- FAO and CIRAD join forces to promote sustainable production of fruit and vegetables
- FAO Director-General highlights role of greater investment, polices and innovation to transform agri-food systems
- G20 Agriculture Ministers: Agri-food systems are key to reducing inequalities, says FAO Director-General
- Voices of the Global South for cooperation towards agrifood systems transformation
- New educational itinerary on the Sustainable Development Goals launched at Rome’s G20 Garden
- FAO ready to follow up on the UN Food System Summit and transform Agri-Food Systems Together
- UN report calls for repurposing of $470 billion of agricultural support that distorts prices and steer us away from environment and social goals
- Afghanistan: FAO appeals for $36 million to urgently save rural livelihoods and avoid massive displacement
- FAO calls for a greater focus on heading off food crises before they strike
Climate
- Call for ‘decisive action now’ to avoid climate catastrophe
- FROM THE FIELD: Haiti’s gruelling post-quake road to recovery
- Paris climate deal could go up in smoke without action: Guterres
- Counting on youth, for an ‘equitable and sustainable world for all’
- Act now to slow climate change and protect the planet, urges UN chief
- ‘Tipping point’ for climate action: Time’s running out to avoid catastrophic heating
- Eating wild meat significantly increases zoonotic disease risk: UN report
- Most agricultural funding distorts prices, harms environmental goals – UN report
- Climate action: Guterres hails Latin American and Caribbean leadership
- From locusts to cyclones: the human cost of interlinked disasters
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
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and IRENA Team-Up to Accelerate Asia’s Energy Transition
- Wind, Solar and Hydrogen Can Increase Energy Security in Paraguay
- Ministers, Mayors, CEOs Announce Huge Push on Clean and Efficient Energy
- Solving the Chicken and Egg Problem: Auctions for Green Hydrogen
- IRENA and Hydrogen Council Forge Alliance to Scale Up Hydrogen Across the Energy System
- IRENA and IAEA to Help African Union Develop Continental Power Master Plan with EU support
- Indigenous Resources Key to Energy Security and Universal Access in Botswana
- IRENA and World Government Summit Sign Partnership to Advance Energy Transition
- How Solar Water Heaters Industry Benefits the Local Economy
- Applications Open for the Fall 2021 Cohort of the IRENA Student Leaders Programme