ROME – The rigged FAO appointment of a Chinese national to a senior legal officer position that had been earmarked for a respected Spanish woman lawyer for years

 PYLOS – Serious concerns have been raised by the survivors of the sunken fishing Adriana vessel in Greece.

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 VENICE - - UNESCO has implored “Put Venice on the list of heritages at risk” as climate change and mass tourism threaten it.

 ROME - - Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), such as Food Systems 4 People, have condemned the United Nations Food Systems Summit which is taking place from Monday to Wednesday. 

  ROME – A year after his election as the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Spanish finance geek Alvaro Lario still is punching below his weight and over dependent,

 PORT-AU-PRINCE -– The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has announced that the number of vulnerable people receiving humanitarian aid in Haiti will be halved due to decreasing funding levels

 Brussels – Five leading Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to the European Commission (EC) about Italian Law 15/2023 and the practice by Italian authorities of assign

 ROME/NEW YORK/GENEVA - - The latest research shows around 735 million people currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019.

 ADRE, CHAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly scaling up its response on the Chad-Sudan border to support a surge of people fleeing from Sudan.

 ROME – FAO consultants are up in arms over a raft of promotions and appointments by just re-elected Director General Qu Dongyu, at least three of them in his off

  BERLIN – FAO director general Qu Dong-Yu during his first term that ended last week “manipulated the UN agency to the advantage of Beijing,” including encouraging the supply in Africa, Asia and O

 ROME – The Chinese Communist Party ordered FAO director general Qu Dongyu to appoint Mario Lubetkin as the head of the UN agency’s latin american division after the Uruguayan Communist party lobbi

 ROME – Investigations of cases of alleged sexual harassment and other misconduct at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other UN agencies will never be fair until they are carried out

 ROME – Alleged complicity between senior managers at the FAO purportedly sexually harassing women employees and members of the agency’s Office of the Inspector General that examines sex harassment

 ROME – A senior FAO officer during a coffee break on the FAO panoramic terrace with female colleagues "openly discussed his preferences about women’s physical attributes," investigators at the UN

 ROME –  The United Nations World Food Programme thanks the Republic of Korea for their recent decision on increasing their annual contribuition of rice aid to the program.

 ROME – The father of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, killed in Congo while travelling in a WFP convoy has given an interview to

 ROME – The abrupt withdrawal of two candidates from Iraq and Tajikistan from their official bid to challenge the re-election of the Chinese director general of the FAO, Qu Dongyu,

 PORT SUDAN – The UN World Food Programme warned on Wednesday that an additional 2 - 2.5 million people in Sudan are expected to slip into hunger in the coming months as a result of the ongoing vio

 ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) is deeply concerne

 ROME – The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter

 ROME – Italy’s “Mai Più Fame” (Never Hungry Again) Action Against Hunger project has seen a great success with its 2022 “Restaurants Against Hunger” initiative raising over 100,000 euros from 133

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BLANTYRE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has stepped up an emergency response to help an estimated 130,000 people affected by the devastating effects of Cyclone Fre