ROME– FAO employees held an extraordinary assembly Wednesday to discuss industrial action in protest at Director General Jose Graziano da Silva’s “shocking” decision to revoke a key labour contract

ROME-Staff cuts by FAO hatchet man Denis Aitken may cost the UN millions in legal compensation and replacing the Performance Evaluation system also will jack up costs at the agency, UN sources say.

NEW YORK-We all know that truth is the first casualty- Syria's case is no exception to this rule -And this time we have the same players and same scenario.

ROME—FAO chief José Graziano da Silva has cut some 16 jobs from the UN agency’s IT division in what staff claim is “random, rather personal” culling of employees, FAO sources say.

ROME– As the West determines how to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, Syria’s Ambassador to Italy is still on Italian soil despite U.S. protests, diplomatic sources say.

ROME–FAO Chief José Graziano da Silva is “forcing staff to starve” through job cuts contravening the hunger-fighting agency's mission, it is claimed.

ROME – FAO management is reneging on pledges to redeploy staff whose positions are being abolished, telling them are no funds available to keep them in the troubled UN agency, sources say.

ROME– UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staff face swingeing job cuts by year end as Director General José Graziano da Silva slashes dlrs 37 million from the famine-fighting agency’s budget, FAO

ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva dropped plans to hire consultant Telma Viale as HR chief after viewing an artistic  video in which she apparently strips to the buff, FAO sourc

 ROME -- UN World Food Programme's Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, left Saturday on a 10 day trip to review hunger challenges in four African countries.

ROME--Remittances sent home by migrants, “can empower rural people to blaze a trail out of poverty and exclusion,” Kanayo Nwanze, IFAD'S controversial president, says.

ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.

  ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has broken up an “immoral earnings” ring  involving a number of staff at the UN agency, FAO sources said.