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’s 2022 Annual Review looks at achievements and priorities
- Celebrating the diversity of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
- International Tea Day 2023: Supporting smallholder tea producers is an integral part in the transformation of agrifood systems
- Urgent assistance is needed to help communities affected by historic Shabelle river flooding in Somalia
- World Bee Day 2023: Bees and pollinators need responsible agriculture that supports their role in nature
- Urgent call for assistance for southern Africa after cyclones and floods: climate shocks upend rural livelihoods
- FAO leads global efforts to strengthen aquaculture for food and sustainable development
- Global push to step up action against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing
- FAO warns of potentially devastating Moroccan Locust outbreak in Afghanistan’s wheat basket
- Ground-breaking data platform plays key role in tackling acute food insecurity in food crises
Climate
- Extreme weather caused two million deaths, cost $4 trillion over last 50 years
- Horn of Africa: Over 7 million children under the age of 5 remain malnourished
- Advocating for sustainable water ‘gamechangers’, Kőrösi goes West
- G7 nations, ‘central to climate action’ says Guterres, calling for global reset
- First Person: Rising from disaster
- Global temperatures set to break records in during next 5 years
- Dozens feared dead in Myanmar as Cyclone Mocha creates ‘nightmare scenario’
- New UN ‘roadmap’ shows how to drastically slash plastic pollution
- UN agencies brace for disaster as Cyclone Mocha intensifies in Bay of Bengal
- Countries must forge ‘Global Blue Deal’ to protect the ocean: UNCTAD
Atmosphere
- Anthropogenic forcing and Pacific internal variability-determined decadal increase in summer precipitation over the Asian water tower
- Increasing global precipitation whiplash due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
- Jupiter’s cloud-level variability triggered by torsional oscillations in the interior
- Rainfall variability patterns in Nigeria during the rainy season
- The contribution of industrial emissions to ozone pollution: identified using ozone formation path tracing approach
- Rare-earths on a hot Jupiter
- African biomass burning affects aerosol cycling over the Amazon
- Aerosol breezes drive cloud and precipitation increases
- Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers
- Southern California winter precipitation variability reflected in 100-year ocean salinity record
Renewable sources
- IRENA Council Assesses Energy Transition Progress Ahead of COP28
- IRENA and Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce COP28 Partnership to Help Accelerate the Global Energy Transition
- Scaling Up Renewables to Empower Lives and Livelihoods Requires an Integrated Effort
- IRENA Launches Report for the G20 on Low-Cost Energy Transition Finance
- IRENA and Masdar to Collaborate on Setting a Roadmap to Triple Global Renewable Energy Capacity by 2030
- IRENA Unveils New Initiative to Accelerate Youth-led Renewable Energy Projects and Start-ups
- IRENA and thyssenkrupp Agree to Accelerate Green Hydrogen Solutions
- G7 Communiqué Echoes IRENA´s Call for Rapid Deployment of Renewables
- At 11th IRENA Renewables Talk, EU Stresses Collaboration is Crucial for Green Deal Success
- Under IRENA's ETAF, Masdar and AIIB Reach Financial Close on 3 Uzbek Solar Projects