Food and Agriculture Organization
Specialised agency of the United Nations
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| 2023 | Maurizio Martina becomes Deputy Director-General, and Laurent Thomas and Beth Bechdol conclude their terms. |
| 2020 | A German public broadcaster ARD investigation reveals potential Chinese influence in the FAO under Qu Dongyu's leadership, highlighting concerns about the organization's alignment with Chinese interests. |
| 2020 | Beth Bechdol becomes Deputy Director-General. |
| July 2020 | FAO Council approved modernization measures proposed by Director-General Qu Dongyu, including adopting a more flexible organizational structure to improve agility and cross-sectoral collaboration. |
| February 4 2020 | 59 cities were announced as achieving the Tree Cities of the World designation, including 27 from the United States. |
| August 2019 | Qu Dongyu becomes the tenth Director-General of the FAO, serving from August 2019 to the present. |
| May 2019 | The defamation court case against The Italian Insider was further adjourned. |
| January 2019 | The defamation court case against The Italian Insider was adjourned, with the hearing described by Private Eye as 'one of the more surreal courtroom scenes in modern times'. |
| 2018 | FAO planned a total budget of US$1,005.6 million for the 2018-2019 budget period, covering core technical work, cooperation, partnerships, and various organizational functions. |
| October 2018 | FAO and the Arbor Day Foundation launched the Tree Cities of the World programme at the World Forum on Urban Forests to recognize cities committed to maintaining urban forests. |
| June 2018 | FAO and four of its officials filed a defamation lawsuit against The Italian Insider newspaper and its editor John Philips, seeking potential fines up to €100,000 and prison time. |
| 2017 | Laurent Thomas becomes Deputy Director-General. |
| April 2017 | FAO staff unions addressed the organization's Governing Council to raise concerns about short-term contracts, management centralization, and increasing workload. |
| 2016 | FAO was criticized for recruiting Nadine Heredia Alarcón de Humala, wife of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala, to a senior position while she was under investigation for corruption allegations. |
| 2016 | FAO projected voluntary contributions to reach approximately US$1.6 billion for the 2016-2017 budget period, supporting mechanical and emergency assistance to governments. |
| 2015 | FAO set a goal to halve the number of hungry people in the world, targeting the approximately 1 billion people experiencing hunger as part of the Millennium Development Goals. |
| 2013 | The Italian Insider newspaper began making allegations of nepotism and corruption within the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). |
| 2013 | Maria Helena Semedo begins her role as Deputy Director-General. |
| 2012 | Dan Gustafson becomes Deputy Director-General for Programmes. |
| November 28 2012 | United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Forests, which FAO officially sponsors on 21 March each year. |
| January 2012 | Director-General José Graziano da Silva committed to bringing the FAO reform to a successful completion and shifted the focus to realizing the benefits of the reform process. |
| January 2012 | José Graziano da Silva becomes the ninth Director-General of the FAO, serving from January 2012 to July 2019. |
| 2011 | Ann Tutwiler (Knowledge) and Manoj Juneja (Operations) become Deputy Directors-General. |
| April 2011 | The 1billionhungry project was rebranded as the EndingHunger campaign, expanding its focus to engage 14- to 25-year-olds and intensifying its multimedia and social media outreach. |
| November 30 2010 | The 1billionhungry project petition was presented to representatives of world governments in a ceremony held in Rome, collecting over three million signatures to end hunger. |
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