ROME -- The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, reportedly has applied for Italian citizenship but the Italian authorities evidently are dragging their feet over the request, perhaps bec

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an evident, costly move to provide support for the growing flock of rooky Latin American staff members hired by Director General José Graziano da Si

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fellow’s Programme operates in a manner counter to the employment laws of some member states, a well placed FAO source contends.

GENEVA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged EU Member States to promptly relocate all asylum-seekers eligible under the EU’s emergency relocation scheme, and for the scheme to continue b

 ROME – The FAO plans to close shops and commercial banks in its building evidently to prepare for hosting a UN secretariat to coordinate the work of  UN agencies in the Eternal City and provide a

ROME – Will IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo be able to resist the charms of the UN agency’s veteran American spin doctor Cassandra Waldon?

 ROME- Robert Jenkins, UNICEF representative in Jordan, talked Wednesday about the treatment of child refugees in the Kingdom and strategies that the organisation has put into place to ensure that

ROME – Peruvian former cab driver Fernando Servan’s appointment as top Human Resources honcho at the FAO has made the UN agency seem like a Latin American junta more than ever with senior executive

 ROME – The FAO introduced draconian new employment terms for consultants this week, stating that consultancies won’t be renewed if less than six months in duratio

ROME – The United States has told the Food and Agriculture Organisation it will slash its funding of the UN agency by some 20 percent, or some dlrs 32 million, FAO sources say.

ROME — The arrest of Nadine Heredia on corruption charges has underlined the imprudence of FAO supremo José Graziano da Silva’s decision to hire the former Peruvian firs

ROME — Despite the summer heat the FAO’s Latin American clique continues to consolidate its grip on top jobs at the UN agency.

ROME - Finnish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Jari Leppä participated in the 40th FAO Conference's session in Rome, which begun on July 3 and ends July 8.

ROME -  A new United Nations global action programme launched today at FAO seeks to address pressing challenges related to food security, nutrition and the impacts of climate change facing the worl

 ROME –  As the FAO 40th annual Conference opened Monday, FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva is believed to be bolstering support from member countries b

ROME --  Professional staff at the Food and Agriculture Organisation are considering protesting at the upcoming FAO Conference to dramatise a “systematic erosion of conditions of service” and a “ne

ROME – The World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, says he “would probably sleep in a tent” rather than live in a lavish villa of the kind enjoyed by some other United Nations food

ROME — WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told his predecessor Catherine Bertini he expects to follow “all but one” of 10 recommendations she made for cost savings

ROME — World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley has called an all staff meeting of the UN agency at headquarters Tuesday in an evident effort to bolster fla

ROME- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has denied forging a partnership with controversial bank Wells Fargo, after the American financial services company quoted an IFAD o

ROME- A report by IFAD shows migrants send home 51 percent more money than they did a decade ago, lifting millions of people out of poverty in international communities.

ROME- The World Refugee Day, an annual event established by the United Nations General Assembly, is celebrated June 20, with the aim of raising public awarene

ROME –  Controversial former IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze has been hired by FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva to drum up support in Africa as a goodwill ambassador for the Brazilian agron