• AP/Google.com reports that "Asia and the Pacific has the largest number of hungry people - 642 million, up 10.5 percent from last year. Sub-Saharan Africa registers 265 million undernourished, an 11.8 percent increase. Even in the developed world, undernourishment is a growing concern, with 15 million in all and a 15.4 percent increase, the sharpest rise around the world, FAO said" (AP/Google.com, 6/20).
  

• For the first time, the number of chronically hungry people worldwide is greater than 1 billion, according to a recent U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
  

• The total number of hungry people is estimated to have reached 1.02 billion - an increase of 11 percent from last year's 915 million, according to the agency, which based its estimate on analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  

• The Philippine food insecurity Glossary: food insecurity Close A situation that exists when people lack secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life. It may be caused by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution, or inadequate use of food at the household level. Food insecurity, poor conditions of health and sanitation, and inappropriate care and feeding practices are the major causes of poor nutritional status. Food insecurity may be chronic, seasonal or transitory. and vulnerability Glossary: vulnerabilityClose The presence of factors that place people at risk of becoming food insecure or malnourished, including those factors that affect their ability to cope. Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS) facilitated the identification of food insecure and vulnerable provinces, where the hungry and poor families are located. Results from the FIVIMS analysis show that 49 out of 77 provinces (63.6%) in the country are vulnerable to food insecurity in varying degrees. Only 13% (10 provinces) and 23.4% (18 provinces) were classified as Less Vulnerable and Not Vulnerable, respectively. The Philippines National Nutrition Council (NNC) in its role as oversight agency of the AHMP, recommended to the President and the Cabinet to target the 49 provinces ranked as highly vulnerable by FIVIMS for the AHMP. These 49 provinces are now the priority areas for AHMP implementation.
  

• Every year 15 million children die of hunger
  

• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
  

• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
  

• 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
  

• Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished
  

• To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year