ROME -- David M.

CAIRO — The FAO “clandestine” office in Riyadh occupies a floor at the Saudi ministry of Agriculture and in Kafkaesque fashion is known only as “the Unit” to officials f

ROME – Genial French boffin Laurent Thomas will be named Deputy Director General for climate change at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in a move that embattled Director General José Grazia

 WASHINGTON – Republican House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith lambasted the FAO Thursday for seeking "to silence truthtellers" inside the UN agency and slammed Director General J

CAIRO – Two managers from the FAO’s graft-ravaged Saudi Arabian operation have been fired belatedly after the UN agency was forced to pay compensation to an Egyptian agronomist and whistleblower wh

ROME — Dr Maria Eugenia Casar Pérez, Mexico’s ambitious candidate to be president of IFAD, raised eyebrows in New York when she pushed for the U.N.

ROME – World Food Programme human resources czarina Prerana Issar is moving sideways to a new role as head of Partnerships as part of fin de régime changes that the outgoing Execut

 ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, acknowledging a veto from the Trump administration, has renounced her candidatur

 LIMA -- The Peruvian parliament's President of the Commission of Control, Héctor Becerril, who is investigating ex-First Lady of Peru Nadine Hered

WASHINGTON – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva should make a “’public and humble” apology to FAO members over the fiasco appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to the UN

 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