ROME – Local staff at the Catholic Relief Services in Sudan are increasingly concerned about being obliged to undertake birdwatching excursions into dangerous war zones with the Vatican-linked char

 ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has dismissed the top two German executives at the UN agency in evident retaliation for criticism of his autocratic style of management levelled

ROME — French former head of the European Food Security Agency (EFSA) Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will run as a candidate to be the next Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

ROME — US President Donald Trump has nominated Kip Tom from Indiana, an agri-business magnate owning one of Monsanto’s largest seed producers, to be the new U.S.

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ROME – A third migrant boat sank whilst tackling the treacherous Mediterranean crossing, UN refugee agency, UNHCR Libya confirmed on Tuesday, adding as many as 114 lives to a soaring death toll.

ROME -- FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, bowing to intense pressure from donor countries spearheaded by the United States, agreed at a stormy FAO Council meeting to implement extending

 ROME - Mediatrends America hosted the ‘Climate Change and Energy in South America’ conference on Friday where the Food and Agriculture Organisation presented the troubling recently-published stati

ROME – As many as 523 migrants, saved in seven separate rescue missions, arrived at the port of Pozzallo, Ragusa, aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti on Wednesday, officials said.

MILAN – On Monday, League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced his intention to hold a special sort of “census" of the Roma population in Italy.

ROME – The court case against British editor John Phillips, accused of defaming the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), has been adjourned once again until Jan 15, 2019.

ROME – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a statement on Wednesday about the upcoming Italian Insider court case, condemning the “disproportionate” measures taken by FAO officials to silence

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nepal have agreed to invest US$68.1 million to significantly improve incomes and food security for 35,000 rural farming househo

ROME – A distinguished delegation of Chinese government officials, representatives from Italy, several African countries and the United Nations, participated in a workshop on Tuesday, aimed at boos

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ROME – The League reacted furiously on Monday to accusations from billionaire financier and philanthropist, George Soros, that the far-right Italian party may be financed by the Kremlin, political

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, is evidently in a rush to fill vacant posts, fearing negative repercussions from country members of the UN agency which have been raising questio

 ROME –  Programme and Finance Committee Meetings of the FAO being held this this week were expected to hear 'flimsy excuses' from Director General José Graziano da Silva seeking to justify delayin

ROME – As the end of FAO Director General Josè Graziano da Silva’s turbulent term off office approaches, foreign diplomats are asking whether the Brazilian agronomist will, like his predecessors, d

ROME  - Survivors of a migrant shipwreck are taking Italy to court after their work with the Libyan coastguard led to grave violations of human rights, officials say. 

ROME – The FAO in its latest curb on press freedom has banned a reporter from attending a Year of Zayed event to which Italian Insider was invited by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, disreg