Mario Arvelo in field visits

**Mario Arvelo** and other Ambassadors accompany the Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) **José Graziano da Silva**, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) **Gilbert Houngbo**, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) **David Beasley** on a joint visit to rural development projects in Ethiopia in September 2017. The photo was taken in the Hayelom Kebele commune, Tigray province (where a civil conflict would break out in 2020).

Due to his experience in evaluating technical cooperation projects and his capacities for supervision and strategic assessment, as well as for his diplomatic tact, Mario Arvelo participates in inspection visits to evaluate the impact of the work carried out by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP). Field visits in which he has partaken include conflict zones.

Mario Arvelo and other members of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) during a visit to Morocco in May 2015 to supervise the implementation of rural development projects that IFAD deploys in that country. Arvelo was appointed as Rapporteur, and therefore was responsible for preparing the inspection report and presenting it to the Fund’s Executive Board.

Mario Arvelo —then Chair of the United Nations Committee on Agriculture— during an inspection visit to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) livestock and dairy development project in Shaman, a pastoral field east of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The visit took place on 12 March 2014.

Mario Arvelo —then Chair of the Group of 77 in Rome— during the first official visit of diplomats accredited to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to carry out field inspections. On that trip, the commission of evaluators met with authorities and beneficiaries in Ghana and Sierra Leone in March and April 2009. The visit included meetings with officials of the FAO decentralized network for the African continent and for West Africa, in Accra. To Arvelo’s left is UK Deputy Representative Victor Heard.

Mario Arvelo accompanies the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Gilbert Houngbo in an inspection tour of rural development projects financed by the Fund, including a cooperative of plantain farmers in Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. Next to Houngbo is the Dominican Director of Multilateral Cooperation Antonio Vargas.

Photograph taken by **Mario Arvelo** during the joint visit of the leaders of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Program (WFP) to the region from Somali, Ethiopia (a few kilometers from that country’s border with Somalia).

Photograph taken by **Mario Arvelo** during the field visit of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the province of Haouz, Morocco in 2015. Arvelo was elected as Rapporteur for the inspection visit, presenting his report to the IFAD Executive Board.

Photo taken by **Mario Arvelo** during an inspection visit to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) livestock project in Mongolia in 2014.

Photograph taken by **Mario Arvelo** during the inspection visit of ambassadors to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to projects that the agency implements in Sierra Leone, in 2009.

Photograph taken by **Mario Arvelo** during an inspection visit to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) aquaculture project in Ghana in 2009.

Other links to Mario Arvelo’s work in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Mario Arvelo at FAO
With the Director-General
In Council
In the Committee on World Food Security
In the Committee on Agriculture
In the Global Soils Partnership
In the Commission on Finance, Budget, and Reform
In the Programme Committee
In the Appeals Committee
In the Regional Conferences
In the Committee on Forestry
In field inspection visits

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