ROME — The FAO is having major cash flow problems because Brazil’s government no longer supports Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva and Brasilia has not paid Brazil’s contribution t

GENEVA - Migrants crossing from Libya to Italy are more at risk than ever warns the UNHCR after the Aquarius has been confined to port following first Gibraltar and then Panama removing their flags

 ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva is sueing the Italian Insider newspaper for a second time, claiming that articles about his appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Here

ROME – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has pleaded with the international community to tone down the political rhetoric to do with refugees, in a press conference in Rome on Friday

ROME - World hunger is rising, with 821 million people – 17 million more than in the previous year – going hungry in 2017, a UN report has revealed on Tuesday.

ROME – Interior minister Matteo Salvini has hit back at the UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for slamming Italy’s treatment of migrants as “inappropriate, u

ROME – This week the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched "Roots", a podcast devised to spread the voice of rural workers in their

ROME – Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has strongly denied reports that Italy will intervene with their special forces in Libya, following many days of violence in Tripoli, political offic

ROME – When FAO director general José Graziano da Silva first took office he made a big stink about his predecessor Jacques Diouf appointing high-ranking figures at the UN agency just a few months

NEW YORK - Inner City Press journalist Matthew Lee has been “banned for life” from the U.N. after over a decade of reporting on corruption inside the organisation, Mr.

ROME – Local staff at the Catholic Relief Services in Sudan are increasingly concerned about being obliged to undertake birdwatching excursions into dangerous war zones with the Vatican-linked char

 ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has dismissed the top two German executives at the UN agency in evident retaliation for criticism of his autocratic style of management levelled

ROME — French former head of the European Food Security Agency (EFSA) Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will run as a candidate to be the next Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

ROME — US President Donald Trump has nominated Kip Tom from Indiana, an agri-business magnate owning one of Monsanto’s largest seed producers, to be the new U.S.

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 ROME - After being roughed up by New York United Nations Security while covering the U.N.

ROME – A third migrant boat sank whilst tackling the treacherous Mediterranean crossing, UN refugee agency, UNHCR Libya confirmed on Tuesday, adding as many as 114 lives to a soaring death toll.

ROME -- FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, bowing to intense pressure from donor countries spearheaded by the United States, agreed at a stormy FAO Council meeting to implement extending

 ROME - Mediatrends America hosted the ‘Climate Change and Energy in South America’ conference on Friday where the Food and Agriculture Organisation presented the troubling recently-published stati

ROME – As many as 523 migrants, saved in seven separate rescue missions, arrived at the port of Pozzallo, Ragusa, aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti on Wednesday, officials said.

MILAN – On Monday, League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced his intention to hold a special sort of “census" of the Roma population in Italy.

ROME – The court case against British editor John Phillips, accused of defaming the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), has been adjourned once again until Jan 15, 2019.

ROME – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a statement on Wednesday about the upcoming Italian Insider court case, condemning the “disproportionate” measures taken by FAO officials to silence