ROME – Five little known candidates, each from a different continent, have thrown their hats in the ring to succeed Togolese kingpin Gilbert Houngbo as the president of the International Fund for

 ROME -- Scores of members of the Ukrainian community in Italy have staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), calling for Russia to be expelled from

 NEW YORK – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security.

 ROME – FAO’s Ombudswoman is investigating complaints that the UN agency abusively is obliging staff and their spouses and children to produce Covid-19 vacc

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agriculture and Development is remaining tight-lipped over the identity of candidates to replace Togolese Gilbert Houngbo as president of the poverty-busting org

 ROME – European donor countries eligible to elect the next president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) plan to field a woman candidat

 ROME – Amir Abdulla, the World Food Programme deputy executive director and reputed head of the ‘old guard’ at the UN agency, will retire from the organization in June, it has been announced, clim

 ROME – ILO director general elect Gilbert Houngbo is working out his notice as IFAD president by trying to pave the way for a successor from his region while attracting raised eyebrows from diplom

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by denouncing the "folly of war" and calling for an Easter truce in Ukraine as a prelude to peace even if it

ROME – Western diplomats to the FAO have been considering if Russia could be expelled from the UN food agencies for its rape of Ukraine though they are hardly encouraged by fruitless efforts in the

 ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

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 ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched an appeal to its 177 Member States to present their candidates for the election of the next president of the Fu

 ROME –The Italian Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s editor-in-chief John Phillips against his conviction and sentence on charge

 ROME – The 32 people who work in the bar and canteen at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have had their employment suspended indefinitely while the UN age

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued another passionate appeal Sunday f

 NEW YORK -- United Nations staff unions "deeply worried" about the UN pension fund are urging the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres,  to drop the outsourcing h

 ROME -- As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has started campaigning for re-election next year, a circle of Western ambassadors have been meeting to discuss if ther

 ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only

 ROME -- A former FAO employee has won a hard-fought victory and was awarded damages in a lengthy legal battle against the UN agency management after the ILO Administrative Tribunal recognized her