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 ROME -- A group of five concerned members of the IFAD Executive Board have requested meetings with heads of key units at the troubled UN agency to discuss the need for more transparency and whistl

 ROME -- A group of five concerned members of the IFAD Executive Board is calling for measures to restore transparency and establish a new governance structure at

 ROME – Uruguayan Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin’s mysterious expenses claims costing the taxpayer some dlrs 100,000, including as many as 30 visits to Rome over

 VIENNA – The Russian deputy head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has outraged staff by publishing a memoir in which he lambasts “gays, lesbians and other perverts and sodomites,” says th

 ROME -- A well-known figure at the Circo Massimo, Carlos Watson, has attracted considerable attention within both the FAO headquarters in Rome and the FAO New York Office, where he is frequently s

 ROME – Despite recent disclosures of rampant sexual nepotism and graft at IFAD, key decisions at the Rome based develoipment bank for small farmers still are dri

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has appointed a “Crisis Manager” to try and contain what is feared is damage to the reputation of the UN agency and its beleaguered

 ROME – Consultants hired by International Fund for Agricultural Development managing director Carola Alvarez at three or four times the normal rate of pay at the

 ROME – IFAD’s top female povertybusters Carola Alvarez and Constanza Di Nucci are dressing and behaving “as if they were characters in the Devil wears Prada,” flaunting luxury designer brands with

 ROME – IFAD’s doughty staff association has called for “clear, meaningful consequences” for top managers who abuse their authority but the UN agency’s embattled president Alvaro Lario still has st

 ROME - The World Bank has abandoned a key climate target amid an intense pressure campaign from the US, according to official sources, as external observers accuse bank president Ajay Banga of sac

 ROME – IFAD Managing Director Carola Alvarez told staff this week she is leaving the UN agency in  a surprise move following revelations in the Italian Insider t

 WASHINGTON – Tony Kalm, who has died at age 58, led a constellation of anti-poverty initiatives including overseeing the One Acre Fund that helped millions  of smallholder farmers improve their li

 ROME – The IFAD staff association Wednesday pledged to defend whistleblowers at the UN agency after Argentine American managing director Carola Alvarez threatene

 ROME – IFAD President, Alvaro Lario, was quoted on Saturday as saying he strongly denies a “defamatory” Italian Insider report that he had an affair with one of his female employees who was promot

 ROME – The Evaluation Committee of IFAD’s Executive Board was holding a closed doors meeting this week to discuss revelations by the Italian Insider over sexual nepotism that threaten the re-elect

 ROME – IFAD’s embattled Managing Director, Carola Alvarez, called an urgent staff meeting of her Office of Development Effectiveness at the UN agency Tuesday to

 ROME - The World Food Program (WFP) has confirmed a massive data breach it suffered last month exposed the sensitive information of 600,000 Gazan households who had signed up to receive food aid,

 ROME - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not meet with the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while on a two-day official visit to Rome this week as a spat deepened over what Italy sees

 ROME - The daughter of Kremlin-linked billionaire Andrey Guryev, founder of Russian fertiliser giant and FAO partner Phosagro, has accused the Antiguan government of corruption over their sale of