Philanthropy

WFD, another United Nations World Day? How boring! But this one isn't. In spite of its bland name, WFD or...

On Sunday morning, September 21, 2014, artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese installed a large-scale ice sculpture of the words The...

This is the emblematic story of two oil spills: one in the developed world, the other in the Third World,...

The World Food Programme: From a Small FAO Unit to Top UN Humanitarian Agency When children outgrow their parents...That is...

Last week we had the chance to speak with Steve Trent, founder alongside Juliette Williams of the Environmental Justice Foundation....

POSTCARDS FROM THE FRONTLINES PROJECT: A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR CLIMATE REFUGEES by THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION (EJF) Founded in 1999...

Ebola is a perfect example of what is wrong with the World Health Organization. More and more people have been...

My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: An Unexpected End to a Drafting Committee Session. 14 November 1991, 26th FAO...

My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: First Mission, Mauritania October 1980. The sky is an intense blue over Mauritania’s...

Over the past 100 years, agro-biodiversity has steadily disappeared with the adoption of modern agricultural practices and the globalization of...

In the 1990s, the political world,  the so-called "international community" could not countenance the growth of a UN agency that apparently...

The inclusion of food issues has meant from the beginning that FAO had a very broad scope: it wasn't simply...