ROME – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has announced an urgent request for 204 million dollars if it is to continue existing operations beyond February. The UNHAS is a critica

  ROME - Italy has pledged 84 millions euros in the fight to guarantee access to food for those in the poorest rural areas, Luigi Di Maio, Italian Foreign Affairs

CAIRO –  A record 12.4 million Syrians, nearly 60 percent of the population, are now food insecure, according to alarming new national data from the UN World Food Programme (WFP). 

  ROME - The 44th session of the Council of Governors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is set to take place Wednesday and Thursday as leaders meet to discuss strategies

  TARANTO - At the ceremony in Puglia attended by the Operation Commander Admiral Fabio Agostini, Operation Irini handed over the duties of flagship to the Greek vessel HS Aegean. The operation, la

  NEW YORK – A nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to a new report re

  GENEVA - The international community must do more to save lives of refugees taking risky routes towards the Mediterranean, warns UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, releasing today its 

 ROME -- Italian Democratic Party politican Maurizo Martina is joining the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as an Assistant Director General, taking up a host country slot vacated by former EU

 ROME -- The FAO has sacked a whistleblower who fought to prevent the UN agency diluting the vital International Plant Protection Convention, which is designed to prevent the spread between countri

Transcript as delivered of the speech given by UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley during today’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony.

 SANA’A/ADEN, Yemen – The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and

  VATICAN CTIY – Inclusion was front and centre of Pope Francis' mind, who indicated his closeness with the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic, particular

  ROME -- Four members of the 18-member Staff Council of the World Food Programme’s Professional Staff Association have resigned in the past six weeks including the Treasurer responsible for the co

 ROME – Pesticide Action Network, Public Eye, Third World Network and other environmental watchdog NGOs have circulated a petition urging the FAO to drop plans to

 ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal Friday ordered the archiving of a second case brought against Italian Insider chief editor John Phillips by the Food and Agri

 ROME – The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four countries contain

 ROME -- An unprecedented letter of intent signed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Giulia Di Tommaso, President and CEO of CropLife Internationa

ROME -- Imagine finding out your life began as a sex transaction.

 ROME -- The axeing of former EU investment guru Roberto Ridolfi from his position as an FAO Assistant Director General has left five other ADGs being held

 ROME -- The FAO former ADG Roberto Ridolfi evidently has had his contract terminated and left the UN agency amid concern over alleged conflicts of interests the

Statement by WFP Executive Director David Beasley