| GLOBAL: Feeding the world without harming it |
 CAPE TOWN, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Countries with growing populations can boost food production without punishing the environment if they are willing to experiment with less harmful farming practices, experts at a recent conference on biodiversity suggested.
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GLOBAL: Reaching the pneumonia "tipping point" |  DAKAR, 2 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Health organizations have joined forces to launch the first World Pneumonia Day, urging governments, donors and civil society to act to prevent and treat the world’s leading child killer.
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GLOBAL: Malaria tests minus the blood |  DAKAR, 29 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - To detect malaria people might soon be able to chew a stick of gum and swipe it over a magnet or scan a finger with ultra-far infrared light. Neither test requires a blood sample.
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GLOBAL: State of world's vaccines and immunization |  DAKAR, 21 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Yellow fever is a “ticking time bomb”, while measles has been eliminated three years ahead of schedule in parts of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. These are among the highlights of the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, State of the World’s Vaccines and Immunization:
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GLOBAL: Overlooked cures for diarrhoea |  DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - For decades diarrhoea has been a stealth killer, claiming more under-five children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, yet it remains a neglected disease, according to World Health Organization diarrhoea specialist Olivier Fontaine. "We made huge progress in the 1980s, but donor investment decreased in the 1990s as attention was diverted to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
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GLOBAL: Empower women to stem global hunger, say experts |  NAIROBI, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Countries where women's literacy rates and access to education are significantly worse than men's tend to have higher levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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GLOBAL: The food benefits of a command economy |  ROME, 14 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Almost all of the 300 experts at the two-day food forum in Rome agreed that between them they had all the answers to how to feed the world in 2050, but doubted they would have the political support to do it.
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GLOBAL: Recession still hitting poor countries |  ROME, 14 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The 2008/09 economic crisis has hit poor households in developing countries harder than any crisis in recent times, pushing more than a billion people into hunger, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its latest annual report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World.
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GLOBAL: Put women at core of climate change debate, say activists |  BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
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GLOBAL: Working on how to feed the world in 2050 |  ROME, 12 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Could the world go through another food crisis on a scale similar to the one in 2007/08? "Never say never again'", was the general consensus at a two-day High-Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050, organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy.
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