DIARY OF A UN OFFICIAL #4: WILDFIRE
May 1990, on the road to Yalinga . A potholed dirt road , plunging straight forward, in the middle of ...
Tag: FAO
Overfishing, Climate Change and Hunger
Overfishing, climate change and hunger is what you call a "triple whammy"on the planet. You may wonder what they have in ...
WFD: The Big Fight
WFD, another United Nations World Day? How boring! But this one isn't. In spite of its bland name, WFD or ...
WFP – From Small to Giant Steps
The World Food Programme: From a Small FAO Unit to Top UN Humanitarian Agency When children outgrow their parents...That is ...
Diary of a UN Official #2: The Gentleman From Iran
My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: An Unexpected End to a Drafting Committee Session. 14 November 1991, 26th FAO ...
FAO: Revived But For How Long?
Over the past 100 years, agro-biodiversity has steadily disappeared with the adoption of modern agricultural practices and the globalization of ...
FAO: A Descent into Hell
In the 1990s, the political world, the so-called "international community" could not countenance the growth of a UN agency that apparently ...
FAO: From a Technical to a Highly Politicized Agency
The inclusion of food issues has meant from the beginning that FAO had a very broad scope: it wasn't simply ...
FAO: a United Nations Agency Born with a Dual Personality
The oldest United Nations technical agency, and at one point in its chaotic history, the largest, has a bizarre name ...
The United Nations Is Not What You Think
Sorry to disappoint, but the UN is neither. Not a beast, not a dream utopia. Too often in the news ...
