ROME — The FAO is having major cash flow problems because Brazil’s government no longer supports Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva and Brasilia has not paid Brazil’s contribution to the UN agency, nor has the United States, diplomatic sources say.
"It's getting more and more difficult to get anything accomplished at FAO,” a senior source at the agency told the Insider
“It takes sometimes over four months for consultants to be paid -- and only so as a result of continuous weekly reminders for payment with loads of bureaucratic reasons for the delay.“