International Fund for Agricultural Development

The UN’s Fund for Agricultural Development Has a New Boss. He Faces a Cash Crunch.

• July 12, 2022

With the world facing an unprecedented food crisis, the smallest of the three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations — the International Fund for Agricultural Development — has a new president. Álvaro Lario, its chief financial officer and a Spaniard, was elected as the agency’s seventh president on July 7, starting Oct. 1 for …

Development, Poverty, SDGs, UN Agencies

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A UN Agency Keeps Its Promise to Provide On-Site Child Care

Theresa Panuccio

• October 20, 2014

ROME — A much-anticipated child-care center opened at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters here on Sept. 1, taking up to 60 children from 3 months to 3 years old. In doing so, the agency is making good on a long-overdue promise to its staff members as well as carrying out recommendations from an independent evaluation …

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Far-Reaching Changes Remake the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Helmut Volger

• May 13, 2013

BERLIN — The fight against hunger became a primary goal of the United Nations system early on. In 1943, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened an international conference that reached agreement on the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization, and two years later, on Oct. 16, 1945, only days before the …