PARIS (Reuters) - France on Monday nominated a former head of the European Food Safety Agency as its candidate for the next director of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the international body coordinating efforts to fight hunger.
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Travert announced the candidacy of civil servant Catherine Geslain-Laneelle, who led EFSA from 2006-13, at a meeting of European Union farm ministers in Brussels.
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