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
- On the frontier of science for food and agriculture
- FAO Food Price Index rises for ninth consecutive month in February
- UN World Wildlife Day highlights role of indigenous and local communities’ livelihoods and knowledge in the conservation of forest species and ecosystems
- Urgent aid needed to fight humanitarian crisis in Yemen, says FAO Director-General
- FAO’s Investment Centre doubles down on efforts to create more robust and sustainable agri-food systems
- Building momentum on the ethical approach towards Artificial Intelligence endorsed by Pope Francis
- Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals
- FAO supports China-Latin America and the Caribbean partnership to boost agri-food systems
- FAO and IAEA deepen and broaden their collaboration
- FAO pledges to scale up direct use of digital financial transfers
Climate
- Wasting food just feeds climate change, new UN environment report warns
- UN report calls for scaling-up carbon capture, use and storage
- Protect forests, support forest communities, Guterres urges, marking World Wildlife Day
- Secretary-General urges countries to end ‘deadly addiction’ to coal
- Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’, must end, say UN human rights experts
- FROM THE FIELD: Adapting to survive and thrive in Ghana
- UN climate report a ‘red alert’ for the planet: Guterres
- Climate crisis and economic shocks leave millions food insecure across Central America
- World risks ‘collapse of everything’ without strong climate action, Attenborough warns Security Council
- FROM THE FIELD: Poor and vulnerable bear brunt of climate change
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
- Pacific Islands Unite Around Enhanced Renewables Ambition Under Climate Goals
- IRENA Report Identifies Policy Measures to Advance Jordan's Transition to Renewables
- The EV Effect: Markets are Betting on the Energy Transition
- IRENA and IHA Forge Partnership to Advance Sustainable Hydropower
- Energy Transformation in Southern Africa Boosted by New IRENA Agreement with SACREEE
- Parliamentarians Discuss Investments in Renewables at IRENA Legislators Forum
- Global Youth Call for a Just Energy Transition at IRENA Eleventh Assembly
- IRENA Forges New Partnerships to Advance Energy Transformation
- IRENA Members Endorse Launch of Global High-Level Forum on Energy Transition
- How to Scale up Green Hydrogen