GLOBAL HUNGER 1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union (Source: FAO news release, 19 June 2009) The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices (Source: FAO news release, 9 Dec 2008) More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women (Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2006)

CHILD HUNGER Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes (Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2004) 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)