Tag: FAO

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

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

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 ...

The oldest United Nations technical agency, and at one point in its chaotic history, the largest, has a bizarre name ...

Sorry to disappoint, but the UN is neither. Not a beast, not a dream utopia. Too often in the news ...