| GLOBAL: Children’s rights not yet a reality |
 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights.
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GLOBAL: Food aid that gets you two for the price of one |  JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Good quality food aid can save billions of dollars that would otherwise be spent on saving lives, says a major report from the World Bank, one of two new studies that uncover some unsettling facts about food aid and malnutrition.
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GLOBAL: We can have food security, say two new reports |  JOHANNESBURG, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Did you know that agriculture contributed 42 percent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008, more than double the 20 percent of revenue that oil brought into the national coffers?
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GLOBAL: Making peanut butter gets stickier |  JOHANNESBURG, 11 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Plumpy'nut, a widely distributed ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), has revolutionized the treatment of acute malnutrition, but its 12-year dominance is being challenged by a newcomer.
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GLOBAL: Mixed scorecard for donors |  DAKAR, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The world’s wealthiest donors do not put enough into helping communities prevent and prepare for disaster, says the non-profit DARA International, in its third annual rating of donors on quality and efficacy of humanitarian aid.
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GLOBAL: Fortified flour and chewing gum - new approaches to malnutrition |  NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients and fortifying food in new, cost-effective ways, in combination with community outreach work, experts have said.
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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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