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 -- An unprecedented letter of intent signed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Giulia Di Tommaso, President and CEO of CropLife International, a fo
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
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
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
ROME -- A former senior economist at the UN Food and Agriculture organization has strongly denied reports that he allegedly defrauded the UN agency of as much as
ROME – As FAO diplomats try to resume work after the summer break, they continue to watch FAO, as far as they can, to understand the management of Chinese DG Qu Dongyu in his second year in office.
ROME -- An EU probe into a top FAO executive is the latest in a long string of scandals that have rocked UN agencies in Italy over the past decade including alle
ROME -- UN regional ombudsman based in Geneva Nicholas Theotocatos, a FAO Representative in Asia, and senior executives of the WFP and IFAD are among UN agency executives and diplomats who have fa
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