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 Investment Centre Annual Review: a look back at 2024
- FAO study reveals alarming agricultural land degradation in the Arab region
- Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference 2025 opens with a call for inclusive and responsible innovation
- FAO and WFP early warning report reveals worsening hunger in 13 hotspots; five with immediate risk of starvation
- Conflict, displacement and disease drive food insecurity and malnutrition to alarming levels in parts of South Sudan
- FAO Food Outlook: Global output of key food commodity crops on course for new records
- Make the ocean blue again: UN recognizes World Restoration Flagships in East Africa, Mexico, and Spain
- FAO releases the most detailed global assessment of marine fish stocks to date
- UN Ocean Conference: Youth must drive transformation for aquatic foods to feed billions more people, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu says
- FAO Food Price Index dips in May amid lower cereal, sugar and vegetable oil prices
Climate
- Power of football industry inspires team effort towards development goals
- From Himalayan melt to drowning shores, children lead the climate fight
- UN ocean summit closes in Nice with wave of commitments
- ‘No Ocean Declaration without small islands’: Delegates push for inclusion as UN summit nears end
- Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice
- ‘Plenty of fish in the sea’? Not anymore, say UN experts in Nice
- Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO
- Greed is driving oceans toward collapse
- The battle to quiet the sea: Can the shipping industry turn down the volume?
- No green without blue: Young ocean explorers set sail for a sustainable future
Atmosphere
- European compound flood-heat-flood events associated with Omega patterns cannot be easily reproduced by a fully coupled model
- Subtropical warming enhances North Pacific midlatitude winter storm track activity in recent decades
- Does discontinuous Mesoscale Convective System produce stronger precipitation?
- Dynamically downscaled seasonal heat wave projections in the CONUS
- More extreme summertime North Atlantic Oscillation under climate change
- Toward a unified parameterization of three dimensional turbulent transport in high resolution numerical weather prediction models
- Link of the Warm Arctic Cold Eurasian pattern to the Southern Annular Mode variability
- Northward propagation of Hadley Cell in the South Asian monsoon region driven by active convection over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau triggered by sea surface temperature warming of the North Atlantic
- Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon
- Deep chemical weathering on ancient Mars landscapes driven by erosional and climatic patterns
Renewable sources
- Five Key Takeaways from the IRENA Innovation Week 2025
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 3
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 2
- Innovation Week 2025 As It Happens - Day 1
- IRENA and Brazil to Host First Global Energy Planning Summit
- Brasil e IRENA sediarão a primeira Cúpula Global de Planejamento Energético
- Strategies for Resilience - Ensuring Renewable Power Systems' Readiness to Face Extreme Weather
- IRENA Issues Call for Renewable Energy Projects in Central Asia
- I ACT: Building Youth’s Capacity Through Peer-to-Peer Learning
- How to Decarbonise Global Transport and Industry?