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.
Highlighted
News
Agriculture
- Canada contributes over CAD 22 million for FAO’s COVID-19 response
- Ministers at FAO High Level Round Table agreed innovation is key to tackling hunger and climate change
- Bill Gates highlights role of data and technology to end hunger at FAO Conference
- First virtual FAO Conference kicks off with renewed calls for rebuilding a better world
- PETER RABBIT™ teams up with the United Nations, FAO and the UN Foundation on Global campaign to mobilize more food heroes
- Global food trade is buoyant, as are prices
- New G20 Garden plants green future in Rome’s ancient heart
- UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia, call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
- Child labour in agriculture is on the rise again, with further deterioration foreseen due to COVID-19
- Off-farm activities are a growing share of food-system greenhouse gas emissions
Climate
- UN chief: Desertification and drought destabilizing well-being of 3.2 billion people
- ‘Digital dumpsites’ study highlights growing threat to children: UN health agency
- Restoring nature ‘the test of our generation’: UN General Assembly President
- Turning to sustainable global business: 5 things to know about the circular economy
- Guterres: Vaccines should be considered 'global public goods'
- UN-backed report finds no G7-based stock exchange indices align with Paris climate goals
- First Person: Owner of first ‘vegan football club’ scoring sustainable goals
- End war on nature and ensure ocean health, UN chief says in message for World Oceans Day
- Chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort as CO2 emissions rise: WMO
- Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all
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
- IRENA and the UN Agree to Advance Renewables in Peacekeeping Operations
- Morocco and IRENA Partner to Boost Renewables and Green Hydrogen Development
- IRENA Members Contribute to G20 Action Agenda on Offshore Renewables
- Universal Access to Sustainable Energy Will Remain Elusive Without Addressing Inequalities
- China and IRENA Boost Ties as Leading Renewables Market Eyes Carbon Neutrality Goals
- Enhanced Financial Instruments Needed to Accelerate Renewables Deployment in Tunisia
- IRENA Launches Global Atlas 4.0
- IRENA Members Welcome New Framework on Just and Inclusive Energy Transition
- Building a Sustainable Future in Cities
- IRENA and Siemens Energy Sign Partnership Agreement