ROME – As FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva enters the twilight years of his flamboyant reign, insiders at the UN agency have identified leggy deputy director general Maria-Helena Semedo

 ROME -- The eight nominations for President of the U.N agency of IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, have been released and

ROME — The Food and Agriculture Organization is becoming “an openly Roman Catholic institution” with the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N agency, Spanish Monsigno

ROME – The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. food agencies David Lane left Rome of his own accord and was not dismissed by the State Department, an U.S. official said Thursday.

 ROME - The FAO held Friday the gender event, "Step it up together for rural women to end hunger and malnutrition,” in which speakers discussed the importance of focussing on rural areas and the fe

ROME – The FAO barred Italian Insider's Colombian news reporter Nathalie Kantaris Diaz from attending a news conference by the Colombian President, Manuel Santos, at the UN agency Thursday in the l

 LIMA -- Former Peru first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed as head of the FAO’s Geneva liaison office, will be quizzed Wednesday

 ROME -- The UN development bank for small farmers, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), says it will disclose candidates to

ROME – Sarah Palin will not be appointed by Donald Trump to head the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, the current WFP Executive Director, has told staff of the U.N.

 LIMA -- Results of a survey circulating Monday show that 75 percent of Peruvians believe their ex-first lady Nadine Heredia’s new FAO job to be a strategy to evade justice, newspaper Perú21 report

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, battling to retain diplomatic immunity after the end of his mandate, has proposed uniting the three Rome-based UN Food agencies including WFP and

 ROME -- The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva said that the UN agency will support the land reforms at the heart

 ROME -- The interrogation of ex-Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed head of the FAO’s liaison office, into her alleged abuse of office has been set back by a week, Peruvian newspaper El

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation has acknowledged that U.S. nationals are under represented in employment at the UN agency and pledged to take action to rectify the situation, the U.S.

ROME — As the FAO Council meeting this week is expected to consider a no-confidence vote in FAO supremo José graziano da Silva, it is understood that the UN food agency