ROME -- Italian Democratic Party politican Maurizo Martina is joining the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as an Assistant Director General, taking up a host country slot vacated by former EU

 ROME -- The FAO has sacked a whistleblower who fought to prevent the UN agency diluting the vital International Plant Protection Convention, which is designed to prevent the spread between countri

Transcript as delivered of the speech given by UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley during today’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony.

 SANA’A/ADEN, Yemen – The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and

  VATICAN CTIY – Inclusion was front and centre of Pope Francis' mind, who indicated his closeness with the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic, particular

  ROME -- Four members of the 18-member Staff Council of the World Food Programme’s Professional Staff Association have resigned in the past six weeks including the Treasurer responsible for the co

 ROME – Pesticide Action Network, Public Eye, Third World Network and other environmental watchdog NGOs have circulated a petition urging the FAO to drop plans to

 ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal Friday ordered the archiving of a second case brought against Italian Insider chief editor John Phillips by the Food and Agri

 ROME – The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four countries contain

 ROME -- An unprecedented letter of intent signed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Giulia Di Tommaso, President and CEO of CropLife Internationa

ROME -- Imagine finding out your life began as a sex transaction.

 ROME -- The axeing of former EU investment guru Roberto Ridolfi from his position as an FAO Assistant Director General has left five other ADGs being held

 ROME -- The FAO former ADG Roberto Ridolfi evidently has had his contract terminated and left the UN agency amid concern over alleged conflicts of interests the

Statement by WFP Executive Director David Beasley

 ROME – Anti-child abuse aid charity Hear Their Cries has slammed the Nobel Peace

ROME --A flight carrying the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (North), Abdulaziz Al-Hilu, was expressly authorized by the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, to facilitate negotiatio

 ROME – Algeria’s upcoming referendum gives the north African nation a chance to reform its constitution meaningfully for the first time since independence

 KANO – The Nigerian Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19

 ROME – Staff at the WFP office in Sudan are concerned they may be at risk from retaliation after Gavin Gramstad, a Special Assistant to the WFP Executive Directo

 ROME – A self-styled group of ‘concerned WFP staff’ has raised questions about the appointment of American aid worker and consultant Gavin Gramstad as a Special