World has over 1b hungry people

ROME: One in six people in the world - or more than 1 billion - is now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a UN agency said on Friday.

Compared with last year, there are 100 million more people who are hungry, meaning they receive fewer than 1,800 calories a day, the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report.

Almost all the world's undernourished live in developing countries, where food prices have fallen more slowly than in the richer nations, the report said. Poor countries need more aid and agricultural investment to cope, it said.