ROME–FAO chief medical officer Cedric Dumont has been reprimanded for offering potentially suicidal staff at the UN agency a course on “managing stress in a changing workplace,” FAO sources say.

ROME–FAO has hired Brazil`s controversial former agrarian reform guru Rolf Hackbart to head the UN agency`s partnership division in  yet another nepotistic top appointment, FAO sources say.

ROME--IPS executives strongly deny their director general has become rich from heading the news agency but have stopped short of explaining his luxurious lifestyle, according to IPS insiders.

ROME–FAO watchers have urged a review of procedures used to appoint Mario Lubetkin as Communications chief at the UN agency, the latest in a series of unorthodox hirings in the FAO's media division

ROME – World Bank flak Sergio Jellinek has been chosen to head the troubled IPS agency in Rome amid speculation IPSTV will be refinanced by Argentinian entrepreneur Jose Luis Manzano, media sources

ROME – As IPS agency chief Mario Lubetkin prepares to head FAO’s byzantine communications division, Italy has pledged dlrs 250,000 to the UN agency  to commission articles from IPS about Expo Milan

ROME–Two women development experts discarded in a rigged FAO job appointment for Latin American Communications officer are considering appealing against their rejection in favour of Juan Jose Toha,

ROME–FAO has signed Mario Lubetkin, head of IPS news agency, as its Communications chief, climaxing the unusual rapport between the UN agency and the Italian-funded news agency, FAO sources say.

ROME – An Asian clan bid to increase influence at FAO failed after a Japanese rival became Evaluation Director but the subcontinent "mafia" catapulted a female companion to promotion, FAO sources s

ROME—FAO’s staff selection committee questioned the rigged hiring of the Mayor of Santiago’s nephew, Juan Tohà, to the agency’s Latin American communications job but was overruled, FAO documents sh

ROME– Senior FAO officials convened an “emergency meeting” to discuss fall-out from the disclosure of blatant rigging of the agency’s high-profile Latin American communications job, FAO sources say

ROME – Top executives at IFAD, the UN agriculture development bank, are jumping ship without paddles to escape the autocratic and flamboyant Nigerian Director General, Kanayo "Emperor" Nwanze, UN s

ROME – The FAO is cutting 50 more project or short term posts from its Global Resource Management system as Florentin Albu and rogue directors defy orders to redeploy axed staff, UN sources say.

ROME– Food and Agriculture Organisation staff with Vatican “protectors” or in secretive Opus Dei are favoured by the UN agency management among employees facing vicious job cuts, FAO watchers say.

  ROME --The rise of an influential Asian clan at the UN food agencies has snagged with the suspension of a top IFAD official over a sexual harassment complaint, UN sources say.

ROME–FAO’s CIO chief Florentin Albu, bowing to pressure, has agreed to re-deploy four axed staffers to new posts, following Italian Insider’s disclosing his plans to dump them in violation of labou

ROME-- Thousands of runners took to the streets last weekend to participate in Rome's 8^th annual Hunger Run -The 10k competitive race and 5k run/walk are organized by the Food and Agricu

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation's ambitious CIO division director, Florentin Albu, has turned abolition of posts at the UN agency into a “personal vendetta,” FAO sources charge.

 ROME -- FAO staff carried out a short warning strike Tuesday to protest job cuts and management violating the UN agency's job security agreements, FAO sources said.