ROME – The quality of FAO documents and publications has plunged in recent months, becoming frequently unreadable gibberish as increasing numbers of poorly qualified Spanish staff are hired to the

ROME — IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze may have had to move out of his luxury villa because of an expenses scandal but Warwick University has recognized the Nigerian poverty buster's sterling qualitie

 ROME -- When a Portuguese spy pushed an envelope containing top secret NATO documents across a table towards his Russian handler recently, he confirmed Vladimir Putin’s voracious appeti

 ROME -- In a visit to the World Food Programme on Monday, Pope Francis laments the world we live in, where “wars are fed, people are not” and talked about the importance of the work that the WFP a

ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva surprised donors this week by disclosing that he intends to widen the brief of the famine-fighting UN agency to include migration, an area that is

BRASILIA— FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has indicated he will give cash-strapped Brazil a 25 percent discount on its annual contribution to the UN agency worth some dlrs 3 million to

ROME – Embattled UN pension fund CEO Sergio Azivù flew into the Eternal City this week to reassure retired staffers owed up to eight months in pension arrears they will be paid soon, UN sources sai

 ROME – A Latin American diplomat offered to arrange permanent job contracts for young women working in the messen

ROME – A day after Italy celebrated World Press Freedom day, the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor resumed Wednesday on libel charges brought by five FAO executives at the Rome-based UN agenc

ROME – FAO general service staff union leader Mauro Pace has accused the UN agency’s management of  mounting a “vicious personal attack” against him in an internal intranet communication sent to al

 ROME -- Doubts have reportedly been raised over the initial promise of military intervention on Italy’s part in Libya after the request for help from their presidential advisor Fayez Al Sarraj.  A

ROME – As FAO’s press office trumpeted José Graziano da Silva’s glorious receipt of an Italian ‘knightship,’ the UN agency director general in a major speech on Africa airbrushed out his links on t

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