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FAO supremo rallies for Marxist candidate
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva and his wife took time off the other day to join a rally in support of PT Brazilian candidate Fernando Haddad outside the Brazilian Embassy in Pia
Pope chides FAO ‘flashy slogans’ in hunger battle
Exclusive: FAO faces cash crisis as Brazil pulls plug
ROME — The FAO is having major cash flow problems because Brazil’s government no longer supports Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva and Brasilia has not paid Brazil’s contribution t
Migrant crossings more perilous warns UNHCR
FAO DG launches second libel suit against Insider
ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva is sueing the Italian Insider newspaper for a second time, claiming that articles about his appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Here
UNHCR: No room for racism
UN report: World hunger on the rise
Salvini tells UN High Commissioner: Don't give us lessons
IFAD launches new podcast aimed at rural communities
Salvini denies Italian military intervention in Libya
Refugees evacuated from abandoned detention centre
TRIPOLI - Endangered refugees have been evacuated by the UNHCR from one of Tripoli’s detention centres as armed conflicts erupt across the Libyan capital, report United Nations officials.
Graziano 'breaking own rule' on swan song hires
ROME – When FAO director general José Graziano da Silva first took office he made a big stink about his predecessor Jacques Diouf appointing high-ranking figures at the UN agency just a few months
U.N. bans 'for life' journalist who covers corruption
NEW YORK - Inner City Press journalist Matthew Lee has been “banned for life” from the U.N. after over a decade of reporting on corruption inside the organisation, Mr.
Exclusive: Bird-loving CRS honcho 'risks staff lives'
ROME – Local staff at the Catholic Relief Services in Sudan are increasingly concerned about being obliged to undertake birdwatching excursions into dangerous war zones with the Vatican-linked char
FAO chief fires German honchos 'in reprisal for criticism'
ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has dismissed the top two German executives at the UN agency in evident retaliation for criticism of his autocratic style of management levelled
France fields woman candidate to run FAO
ROME — French former head of the European Food Security Agency (EFSA) Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will run as a candidate to be the next Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Farm magnate Kip Tom nominated US envoy to FAO, WFP
Italy ready to defend Parmesan against UN regulation
Investigative journalist assaulted by U.N. security
Third shipwreck in four days claims another hundred lives
Graziano bows to pressure on later FAO retirement age
ROME -- FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, bowing to intense pressure from donor countries spearheaded by the United States, agreed at a stormy FAO Council meeting to implement extending