On Monday 27 April in Luxembourg, Spain’s Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, confirmed that he was a candidate for the post of Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to succeed China’s Qu Dongyu.
In his view, two factors are key: - first, the possibility of putting forward a joint European candidate, which has not happened for half a century; - the future Director-General will also need to be able to build bridges with Latin America,...