“World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009, with more than 1 billion people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)….This year, the number of hungry people will grow by about 11 percent..In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger; in sub-Saharan Africa, 265 million; in Latin America and the Caribbean, 53 million; in thew Near East and North Africa, 42 million; and in developed countries, 15 million. “ ( Finance and Development, September 2009)
