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SANTIAGO—The mystery of Raoul Benitez’s appointment to head the FAO’s troubled Latin American and Caribbean division has deepened as the fun-loving Argentinian economist is increasingly sidelined b

ROME - FAO's brash new IT supremo Samuel Varas Guevara has begun replacing dozens of wooden doors with glass ones in corridors at the sprawling Rome-based UN agency so that he can practice close su

 ROME - Stakhanovite FAO Director General

ROME - The FAO Association of Professionals (AP in FAO) has urged Director General José Graziano da Silva to rescind the 'punitive' posting of a former general secretary of the staff association to

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has reinforced the need for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to continue to combat hunger and guarantee access to fresh water for all.

 ROME - The John Cabot University Centre for Professional and Continuing Education in collaboration with the FAO, has announced the arrival a new English language short course entitled “Communicati

 NEW YORK – The attempt to stifle whistleblower Anders Kompass’ exposure of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in Africa shows that s

ROME – A series of damaging UN documents, which detail the sexual abuse of minors by peace-keeping forces in the Central African Republic have been leaked to international media.

Rome—Venezuela will be perhaps the most controversial recipient of an FAO hunger-fighting award on June 7, when the agency honours more than 15 countries for achieving the United Nations’ Millenniu

ROME– FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva, evidently seeking to widen his power base to include Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, has appointed German diplomat Christoph Martin Frick t

ROME - At a hearing conducted by the International Labour Organization, the Rome-based UN agency IFAD was ordered to pay material damages amounting to a year’s salary, to complainants who had seen

Rome - At a recent meeting with a Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations (FISCA) representative, FAO assistant d