JOHANNESBURG AND LONDON – A record 45 million people in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community are gravely food insecure following repeated droughts, widespread flooding and economic

 ROME – Åslaug Marie Haga has joined the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) as Associate Vice-President of the External Relations and Governance Department, IFAD said in a press

 ROME – The Swedish Government has contributed 100 million Swedish krona (approximately 10.5 million U.S.

 ROME – Escalating hunger needs in sub-Saharan Africa dominate a World Food Programme (WFP) analysis of global hunger hotspots in the first half of 2020, with millions of people requiring life-savi

 ROME – FAO investigators are dragging their feet over opening a formal probe into ADG Roberto Ridolfi’s evident conflict of interest using his position at the U.

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 ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a press statement stating that it is “rapidly expanding an already sizeable emergency operation in Zimbabwe where drought, flooding and macro-econo

ROME — Chilean CIO director at the FAO, Samuel Varas, has been sacked as part of a wide ranging purge at the UN agency in which Chinese officials have taken over the IT division, FAO sources said.

 ROME -- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi's son Francesco sent an email to the Fiera di Roma president Pietro Piccinetti last year attaching a draft consultancy contract under which t

ROME – FAO ADG Roberto Ridolfi played a key role this year in advising the Fiera di Roma trade fair how to garner funds from the ENEL energy corporation for the ExCo cooperation fair and Fiera di R

 ROME -- A senior Italian Food and Agriculture Organization executive's bid to become No 2.

 ROME-- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi has strongly denied any conflict of interest between his institutional role and his support of the EXCO cooperation fair held in the Eternal C

 ROME --  Diplomats from Switzerland, Romania and China are among envoys who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to Italian Insider’s modest diplomatic subscription rate despite repeated req

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will splurge as much as half a million euros of taxpayers’ money on building a huge tent structure on its headquarters car park to

 ROME – China’s victory in the Food and Agriculture Organization election due to bungled U.S.

 ROME – Staff at the FAO have welcomed the approachable, open style of their new director general Qu Dongyu as senior Latin American and Hispanic executives appointed by the previous Brazilian regi

 ROME – Ever smiling Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has surrounded himself with a team of seven countrymen or women appointed by the Communist Government in Beijing headed by Guangzhou Qu,

  ROME -- The WFP woman employee accused by the wife of WFP Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla of being his lover has strongly denied ever having had an affair with the powerful Sudanese potent

ROME – International news agencies were poised to record the possible resignation of embattled World Food Programme Number 2 honcho Amir Mahmoud Abdulla Wednesday as donors to the UN agency quizzed

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told directors of the UN agency to drop a petition they began circulating in support of beleaguered Deputy Director Amir 'Pasha' Abdulla, telling the

 ROME – WFP Deputy Director Amir Abdulla’s extracurricular amorous activities have been an open secret at the agency for years but controversial Director of Investigators (OIGI) Barnardin Assiene c