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“We can end hunger in our lifetime”
ROME – Disregarding criticism from OECD countries, FAO Director General Jose Graziano declared that promoting food cooperatives is one effective way to generate food security.
FAO "Samba singer" hire sparks ILO probe
ROME -- ILO officials are investigating FAO consultant Telma Viale for a possible conflict of interests for apparently working for both agencies, ILO sources say.
Australia threatens to end FAO funding
ROME -- Australia may withhold its funding to the FAO in protest against alleged inefficiency at the UN agency, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has cautioned.
FAO women must "sleep way to top?"
ROME – FAO Director general Jose Graziano da Silva has fuelled outraged comments from female colleagues at the UN agency by lamenting a shortage of “really good candidates” among women for top jobs
Opus Dei "influence" at FAO "excessive"
ROME - FAO head Jose da Silva Graziano wants increased support against hunger from the Pope but some observers claim influence of controversial Opus Dei at the UN agency already is excessive.
Consultant "strip" video divides FAO
FAO slams "shameful" Insider coverage
ROME – FAO’s communications chief lashed out at Italian Insider’s coverage as “highly inaccurate” and “shameful” this month as Lamberto Dini strongly denied influencing staffing at the UN agency.
FAO leader traces Calabrian origins
ROME -- FAO protocol chief Paola Dini has become a key figure in the agency's magic circle, accompanying Director General José Graziano da Silva to Calabria for his honourary citizenship recently,
Finnish offer medicine for Italian high spread
FAO suicide rocks U.N. agency
ROME --The tragedy of a Japanese FAO staffer who jumped to his death raises questions whether the U.N. agency gives sufficient priority to staff welfare, UN sources say.
UN agencies remember "fallen heroes"
FAO chief denies Latino "purge"
ROME– FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has strongly denied he is favouring Latin Americans since he took office at the food agency in January.
WFP director visits Latin America
WFP aids victims of Congo conflict
Syrian envoy "takes refuge at FAO"
Exclusive: IFAD fires Global mechanism head
ROME– Christian Mersmann, the respected head of the UN’s Global Mechanism combating desertification, was sacked with two days’ notice by IFAD chief Kanayo Nwanze, UN sources said.
Italy annuls compensation orders for Nazi war crimes
WFP worker released in Darfur
Hangout from Sahel crisis frontlines
Ethiopia aid 'weapon of oppression'
Hundreds walk off job in FAO protest
Politics and poison in Afghan education
KABUL -- In Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province, 120 girls and 3 teachers have been hospitalized after toxic substances were sprayed into the classrooms - only a month after 150 others fell ill