WASHINGTON -- Former South Carolina Governor David M.

 ROME -- Angela Merkel insists Vladimir Putin should not be invited to the G7 summit, yet Italy - suffering economically - would like to readmit the Russian President, Roman daily Il Messaggero rep

ROME -- David M.

CAIRO — The FAO “clandestine” office in Riyadh occupies a floor at the Saudi ministry of Agriculture and in Kafkaesque fashion is known only as “the Unit” to officials f

ROME – Genial French boffin Laurent Thomas will be named Deputy Director General for climate change at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in a move that embattled Director General José Grazia

 WASHINGTON – Republican House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith lambasted the FAO Thursday for seeking "to silence truthtellers" inside the UN agency and slammed Director General J

CAIRO – Two managers from the FAO’s graft-ravaged Saudi Arabian operation have been fired belatedly after the UN agency was forced to pay compensation to an Egyptian agronomist and whistleblower wh

ROME — Dr Maria Eugenia Casar Pérez, Mexico’s ambitious candidate to be president of IFAD, raised eyebrows in New York when she pushed for the U.N.

ROME – World Food Programme human resources czarina Prerana Issar is moving sideways to a new role as head of Partnerships as part of fin de régime changes that the outgoing Execut

 ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, acknowledging a veto from the Trump administration, has renounced her candidatur

 LIMA -- The Peruvian parliament's President of the Commission of Control, Héctor Becerril, who is investigating ex-First Lady of Peru Nadine Hered

WASHINGTON – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva should make a “’public and humble” apology to FAO members over the fiasco appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to the UN

 ROME – The only Asian candidate to become the next head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bambang Brodjonegoro, is a “low value option” who the Indonesian president evidently

 LIMA --  Then Brazilian President Ignacio da Silva Lula ordered the payment of dlrs 1.5 million allegedly received by the former Peruvian first lady Heredia from construction company Odebrecht to