ROME – The only Asian candidate to become the next head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bambang Brodjonegoro, is a “low value option” who the Indonesian president evidently

 LIMA --  Then Brazilian President Ignacio da Silva Lula ordered the payment of dlrs 1.5 million allegedly received by the former Peruvian first lady Heredia from construction company Odebrecht to

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will appoint an ambassador to the UN food agencies who will “clean house” at the FAO to combat Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva’s “sleazy” eff

 WASHINGTON – Donald Trump will not approve World Food Programme Executive Director’s Ertharin Cousin’s application for a second term at the helm of the UN agency and will replace her with someone

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.