ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva may offer former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a bolthole as a “special advisor” to the UN agency to give Lula immunity from prose

ROME – The FAO has been ordered to pay an Egyptian agronomist dlrs 200,000 in compensation for harassment he underwent from bosses at the UN agency after he refused to pay bribes to a Saudi Arabian

ROME - Donors to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) may ask the UN agency to review its ties to the Lula Institute folllowing the request for the arrest of former Brazilian President Lu

 ROME -- The Federation of International Civil Servants (FICSA), along with UGSS (the Union of General Service Staff of FAO and WFP), have approved two resolutions on “the alarming statu

ROME – As many as 30 low-paid staff at the FAO's Shared Service Centre in Budapest have decamped to the UNICEF office in the Hungarian capital to enjoy higher pay and opportunities despite the UN a

ROME – Professional staffers at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are increasingly frustrated over the unctuous new leadership of their AP-in-FAO staff association with its moustachioed p

 ROME -- Slow Food and many other civil society organisations protested Monday over an international symposium being held this week at

 ROME -- In Monday's phone call between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, it has emerged, the British leader covered various dossiers and the theme of th

ROME – A year after American journalist Serena Shim died in a car crash after claiming Isis was using World Food Programme vehicles to cross the Turkish border to Syria, her family are still pressi

 ROME – Dutch Ambassador to the FAO Gerda Verburg could be made an assistant director general of the UN agency in a quid pro quo for pledging not to stand against Director General

SANTIAGO—The mystery of Raoul Benitez’s appointment to head the FAO’s troubled Latin American and Caribbean division has deepened as the fun-loving Argentinian economist is increasingly sidelined b

ROME - FAO's brash new IT supremo Samuel Varas Guevara has begun replacing dozens of wooden doors with glass ones in corridors at the sprawling Rome-based UN agency so that he can practice close su