ROME – Chinese FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has included symbolically three Americans in his 10-person ‘politburo’ senior management team but Western donors ar

ROME – As agencies of the United Nations continue with a process of unpaid remote internships, over 1000 UN staff and interns have urged the UN chief not to go ahead with plans to introduce them on

 ROME – The return of doughty Mexican hungercrat Gina Casar to the World Food Programme has divided the agency between legions of supporters and detractors as she

ROME – Western diplomats tried to no avail at a Council meeting last week of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to present a uniform position on organic reform of the UN agency introduced

 ROME – The WFP Executive Director David Beasley has curbed the powers of the reputed head of the old guard at the UN agency, Sudanese ‘pasha’ and deputy executiv

 ROME -- A senior World Food Programme executive has poured scorn on staff association president Wagdi Othman's claim of widespread racism at the UN agency, pointing out that a constellation of top

ROME – The World Food Programme staff association (PSA), the official voice of the UN organisation’s staff, have criticised the WFP for not having done a “study on the prevalence of racism, or any

 ROME – As delegates prepare for the Food and Agriculture Organization Council meeting next week Western diplomats are divided over the management by the U

ROME – The World Food Programme's (WFP) projections of the number of people to be pushed into food insecurity by COVID-19 has been updated, with new estimates based on real-time monitoring that the

ROME – Syrians face an unprecedented hunger crisis as the prices of basic foods exceed prices at any point over the nine years of conflict, with over nine million Syrians now food insecure, the Uni

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD has defended a decision by President Gilbert Houngbo to recall to the Eternal City employees who

NAPLES – A World Health Organisation (WHO) representative spoke out against the thousands of people on the street of the Campania capital during the coronavirus crisis, as they celebrated the Azzur

ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s

ROME – Coronavirus may push an additional 10 million of the world’s children into acute malnutrition, accounting for a potential increase by 20 per cent, according to estimates from The United Nati

  ROME -- A surprise decision by the FAO Director General, Qu Dongyu, to reallocate radically six assistant directors' job descriptions and move the once powerful

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has kick-started a network of global logistical hubs with the departure on Thursday of a cargo plane carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical c

ROME – As coronavirus pushes up levels of hunger, 370 million children are at risk due to school closures which deprive them of school meals, according to The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF

    ROME - An FAO employee from the UN agency's headquarters staff who was infected with Covid 19 has died of the virus, FAO sources said.

ROME – Former US Republican Governor of South Carolina, David Beasley, who is the current head of the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP), has confirmed that he has tested positive for the coronaviru

ROME — An employee of the FAO tested positive earlier this month with Coronavirus and was hospitalized, Director General Qu Dongyu disclosed Tuesday.