ROME – Spain’s decades-long run of bad luck in the politics of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) evidently continues as an expected show of unity by

 ROME -- In a move evidently backed by the Islamic Conference Organization and China, the controversial International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Pre

 ROME -- In a move that has surprised the diplomatic community in Rome and UN staff, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  President Gilbert

 ROME – Dutch influence at the FAO could be set to increase further with speculation that Netherlands wheeler-dealer Ilja Betlem may be promoted to Chinese DG Qu D

 ROME -- The appointment of Iraqi 'hungercrat' Raschad Al-Khafaji as the head

 YANGON, Myanmar – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Friday warned that its lifesaving operations in Myanmar are being held back by a major funding shortfall, with over 70 per cent of i

 ROME -- FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has launched a charm offensive toward France, appointing French astronaut Thomas Pesquet as a goodwill ambassador of the U

  ADDIS ABABA – A United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy of 50 truck

  CARACAS –  The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started its school meals programme in Venezuela this week, with the first distributions of take-home food rations to children enrolled in

  PEMBA – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as fam

  DODOMA - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide funding to assist 6,240 vulnerable small-scale farmers in rural Tanzania impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ROME – The new geopolitics of the East Mediterranean and the emergent trilateral partnerships of Cyprus-Greece-Israel and Cyprus-Greece-Egypt means that all Mediterranean regions should be seen as

  MATERA - In the first-ever joint declaration by foreign affairs and developm

 ROME – A video of a former dedicated woman employee of the World Food Programme who worked for the UN agency for 17 years in senior positions in Africa has gone

 ROME -- Philippines Ambassador to Italy and the FAO Domingo Nolasco and senior executives of the WFP, FAO, IFAD and UNESCO are among UN agency executives and diplomats who have failed to upgrade t

ROME - Everyday Libyans are realising the substantial chasm which had been left after the destructive war in 2011. 

ROME – The future of Afghanistan hangs on a knife edge between renewed civil war or a possibility of an outbreak of peace, after the US withdraws after 20 years of Afghan engagement, according to a

 ROME -- The FAO Conference has elected Ambassador Hans Hoogeveen, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations in Rome,

  ROME – Millions of refugees are looking to a future of uncertainty and hunger as the effects of the pandemic on aid budgets play out in funding shortages for emergency operations, the United Nati

  ROME – This weekend, leaders of the G7 acknowledged the unprecedented humanitarian crisis our world faces today as mor