ROME – The judge in the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor for alleged criminal defamation of the FAO and four of its executives this week postponed hearing of the case until Dec. 21.

LIMA—Former First Lady of Peru, Nadine Heredia, has presented her appeal before the Peruvian Judicial Powers in which she requests her diaries are excluded from the judicial process related to the

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley was having his first face to face meeting Wednesday with staff at agency headquarters, updating them on UN dignitaries he has met recently before arrivin

ROME – FAO DIrector General José Graziano da Silva asked for a “bilateral meeting” with then U.S. President Barack Obama last year, a letter to the U.S.

 ROME – Newly appointed WFP Executive Director David Beasley has engaged with his staff from day one in the job by sending staff a letter outlining his efforts to defend U.S.

 ROME-- The Prince of Wales visited the FAO on Wednesday, where he was briefed on the major hunger crises affecting northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, topping off his whistle-sto

 ROME-- Gilbert F Houngbo, starting his term as the sixth President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Monday, outlined his aim of guaranteeing that young people from

ROME – As Kanayo Nwanze cleared his desk at IFAD this week, questions have been raised over the award of the dlrs 100,000 Africa Food Prize to the head of the UN agency by the African Green Revolut

 ROME -- With overbearing IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze ending his second and final term at the UN agency Friday, staff were counting the hours to the end of his reign of terror with many planning t

 ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva announced the appointment of Trump appointee David Beasley as the new Executive Director of the World F

ROME – The World Food Programme has interviewed six purported candidates to be Executive Director of the UN agency in an elaborate charade designed to reassure members that the choice of Trump admi

ROME – The FAO in a bizarre move has appointed as its Inspector General responsible for protecting whistleblowers Thierry Rajaobelina who as director of internal oversight at WIPO was responsible f

 ROME -- As if the UN Pension Fund’s own well-documented failings were not enough, the FAO has botched its own Staff Pension Comm

ROME – In what observers see as a rare piece of good news at the FAO, a well respected expert, Julio Berdegue, a Mexican who has worked and lived in Chile for some time, has been appointed the UN a

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has asked the governments of Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador to allow former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia to work at FAO offices in their countri

ROME — As the Trump administration mulls U.S.

ROME – Republican politician David Beasley’ nomination to be the Executive Director of the World Food Programme may usher in a new organizational culture at the UN food agencies that for too long h

ROME – As disclosed first by the Italian Insider, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has nominated a fellow former South Carolina governor – David Beasley – to head the World Food Programme. 

ROME — The Republican politician chosen by Washington to be the next WFP Executive Director may receive a warm welcome from Pope Francis for his pro-life views though he