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
- As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
- FAO Council approves new measures to reform the UN agency
- EcorNaturaSí and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat to boost rural, mountain, forest and island communities’ livelihoods
- FAO welcomes additional €15 million from the European Union to fight Desert Locusts and their impacts on food security
- FAO and Rabobank's new partnership focuses on helping make food systems more sustainable, including through innovative investments
- Director-General proposes new structure to make FAO agile and efficient
- FAO partners with the Adaptation Fund to help vulnerable countries fight the impact of climate change
- Global food commodity prices rebound in June
- Traditional bamboo cultivation system in the Republic of Korea earns place on global agricultural heritage sites list
- Time to scale up and support Africa’s Great Green Wall
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
- TAASRAD19, a high-resolution weather radar reflectivity dataset for precipitation nowcasting
- Sending hope to Mars
- Effects of climate change on the movement of future landfalling Texas tropical cyclones
- Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions
- Radioisotopes demonstrate changes in global atmospheric circulation possibly caused by global warming
- Regional monsoon changes
- Increased melting level height impacts surface precipitation phase and intensity
- Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades
- Increased impacts on US West Coast
- Warming reaches the South Pole
Renewable sources
- IRENA Outlines Key Actions Needed to Accelerate Renewables in Lebanon
- OLADE and IRENA Put Renewables at Heart of Economic Recovery in Latin America and Caribbean
- ADGM Inks Partnership with IRENA to Promote Sustainable Finance
- IRENA Puts Energy Transformation at Heart of Sustainable Recovery Agenda
- Meet the Permanent Representative of Uganda to IRENA
- Renewables Increasingly Beat Even Cheapest Coal Competitors on Cost
- How Falling Costs Make Renewables a Cost-effective Investment
- SIDS to Align Renewables Ambition with Recovery Efforts to Rebuild Economies
- COVID-19 Intensifies the Urgency to Expand Sustainable Energy Solutions Worldwide
- SDG 7 at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery