ROME – Further food ration cuts are imminent for refugees as humanitarian needs multiply around the world while funding struggles to keep pace, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began distributing food vouchers to pregnant women in underserved districts of Colombo on Thursday, marking the start of WFP’s emergency resp

KIEV –Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi travelled overnight by train from Poland to Kiev with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz to meet Ukrainian Prime Minister

 ROME -- Chinese media hailed the opening this week of the new IFAD East and Southern Africa regional office, underlining Beijing’s interest in using the UN agency and its development projects as a

 ROME – The Head of the Arab League Mission, Inas Mekkawi, hihglighted support for Kuwait’s candidate, Dr.

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) issued its first sustainable development bond with Folksam on Wednesday, a leading insurance and pension fund in Sweden.

ROME- The FAO arranged to meet Wednesday for the first Mediterranean Ministerial Dialogue on the Food Security Crisis hosted by the Farnesina. The jamboree calls

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday issued a stark warning of mu

 ROME – The father of the Italian ambassador killed in Congo while travelling in a WFP convoy has called the UN agency “immoral” for insisting its’ employees, who are under investigation in Italy o

 ROME – IFAD’s upcoming presidential election may leave the development bank for small farmers vulnerable to manipulation by China, increasing Beijing’s control o

 NAIROBI -- IFAD presidential candidate Raychelle Omamo, the Kenyan foreign minister, frequently has hit headlines in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the past for h

 ROME –  Kenya’s foreign minister, Rachelle Awuor Omamo, has emerged as the front runner to become the next president of IFAD, and the first woman to hold the post, after Western donor countries ye

 ROME – Five little known candidates, each from a different continent, have thrown their hats in the ring to succeed Togolese kingpin Gilbert Houngbo as the president of the International Fund for

 ROME -- Scores of members of the Ukrainian community in Italy have staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), calling for Russia to be expelled from

 NEW YORK – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security.

 ROME – FAO’s Ombudswoman is investigating complaints that the UN agency abusively is obliging staff and their spouses and children to produce Covid-19 vacc

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agriculture and Development is remaining tight-lipped over the identity of candidates to replace Togolese Gilbert Houngbo as president of the poverty-busting org

 ROME – European donor countries eligible to elect the next president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) plan to field a woman candidat

 ROME – Amir Abdulla, the World Food Programme deputy executive director and reputed head of the ‘old guard’ at the UN agency, will retire from the organization in June, it has been announced, clim

 ROME – ILO director general elect Gilbert Houngbo is working out his notice as IFAD president by trying to pave the way for a successor from his region while attracting raised eyebrows from diplom

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by denouncing the "folly of war" and calling for an Easter truce in Ukraine as a prelude to peace even if it

ROME – Western diplomats to the FAO have been considering if Russia could be expelled from the UN food agencies for its rape of Ukraine though they are hardly encouraged by fruitless efforts in the

 ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

 ROME -- The U.N.

 ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched an appeal to its 177 Member States to present their candidates for the election of the next president of the Fu