| GLOBAL: Non-traditional donors come to the WFP table |
 JOHANNESBURG, 17 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - High food prices and continued market volatility will increasingly make the UN World Food Programme (WFP) tap non-traditional donors like China and the corporate world for funds, as it warned that it would run out of cash by March 2009 to feed millions in hunger hotspots across the globe.
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GLOBAL: Talks and more climate change talks in 2009 |  JOHANNESBURG, 15 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - Maldives, an archipelago off the southeastern coast of India, told the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, that even a 2°C rise in temperature would take the world into the "danger zone" of irreversible climate change.
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GLOBAL: Climate risk insurance the buzz in Poznan |  JOHANNESBURG, 12 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - Climate risk insurance was the buzz at the two-week climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, which started on 1 December.
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GLOBAL: Accidents kill 2,000 children a day |  HANOI, 11 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - Every day, 2,000 children across the globe die in accidents that could have been largely prevented, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 10 December in Hanoi.
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GLOBAL: Food crisis could worsen, warns FAO |  JOHANNESBURG, 9 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - The food price crisis of 2008 will continue into 2009 and might get worse, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The 2008 food crisis has already pushed 40 million people into hunger, bringing the number of undernourished in the world closer to a billion.
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GLOBAL: A Gathering Storm: New climate change videos | NAIROBI, 8 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - As the Poznan Climate Change conference enters its final days, IRIN, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is pleased to announce the launch of eight short videos exploring the human cost of climate change in Africa
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GLOBAL: Donors pledge $380m to emergency fund |  NEW YORK, 8 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - Donor countries pledged US$380 million for 2009 to the Central Emergency Response Fund on 4 December, a vital source of financing in humanitarian emergencies.
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GLOBAL: A little radiation could lift food production |  JOHANNESBURG, 5 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - Gloomy predictions of less food in Africa and Asia in another decade as a result of climate change and low investment can be turned around with a little help from nuclear science, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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GLOBAL: Foundations stand by aid commitments – so far |  NEW YORK, 2 December 2008 (IRIN Global) - The Starr Foundation, set up in 1955 by US insurance entrepreneur Cornelius Vander Starr, donated US$124 million and approved a further $194 million for its beneficiaries in 2006.
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GLOBAL: Avoiding another food price bubble |  JOHANNESBURG, 2 December 2008 (IRIN Africa) - In another 12 years, 16 million more children could be malnourished at a time when even fewer people will be able to afford staple cereals like maize, rice and wheat, which would cost between 13 percent and 27 percent more. This is the bleak scenario of a world in recessionary mode, with declining investment in food production, painted by a food policy think-tank.
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