ROME - Empowering women and girls is crucial to ensure sustainable food security in the aftermath of COVID-19, say UN food agency heads ahead of International W

  ROME – As part of a project organized by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), 24 Italian universities on Wednesday opened the application call for refugees living in Ethiopia to complete a master’s deg

  AGRIGENTO - After news was released of yet another 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean, UNHCR (the UN migration agency) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday ca

  ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, t

  ROME - Italy demanded Wednesday an official investigation to be carried out by the UN and the World Food Programme into the ambush and murder of the Italian ambassador to the Congo and his Carabi

  GOMA - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the rebel group thought to be responsible for the killing of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, have released a statement “de

  GOMA – The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, was shot and killed on Monday in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy in the Virunga National Park, th

  ROME – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has announced an urgent request for 204 million dollars if it is to continue existing operations beyond February. The UNHAS is a critica

  ROME - Italy has pledged 84 millions euros in the fight to guarantee access to food for those in the poorest rural areas, Luigi Di Maio, Italian Foreign Affairs

CAIRO –  A record 12.4 million Syrians, nearly 60 percent of the population, are now food insecure, according to alarming new national data from the UN World Food Programme (WFP). 

  ROME - The 44th session of the Council of Governors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is set to take place Wednesday and Thursday as leaders meet to discuss strategies

  TARANTO - At the ceremony in Puglia attended by the Operation Commander Admiral Fabio Agostini, Operation Irini handed over the duties of flagship to the Greek vessel HS Aegean. The operation, la

  NEW YORK – A nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to a new report re

  GENEVA - The international community must do more to save lives of refugees taking risky routes towards the Mediterranean, warns UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, releasing today its 

 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