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Number of hungry growing
  
        Another 40 million people joined the ranks of the world’s hungry in 2008, in large part because of high food prices, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The number of undernourished people in the world has now reached 963 million, the FAO says in its December report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008. The ongoing financial and economic crisis could force even more people into hunger, the report warns.
     
      In 2007, one in three of sub-Saharan Africa’s population — some 236 million people — was chronically hungry, the highest proportion of undernourished people worldwide, according to the report.
Overall, the FAO says, Africa had made some progress in reducing hunger in recent years, with the proportion of the sub-continent’s population suffering from chronic hunger falling to 30 per cent in 2003-2005, down from 34 per cent in 1995-1997. Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo all made notable progress, with Ghana already reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target to halve the number of people living in hunger by 2015.
   
      However, warned FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf at the launch of the report, any progress by countries towards the MDGs and other international targets risks being reversed by high food prices. “Nowhere,” he said, is the food crisis over.



....This is an artical I found online talking about why the number of hundry people around the world is growing. Africa has made some improvements "hunger falling to 30 per cent in 2003-2005, down from 34 per cent in 1995-1997" (2). This improvement is said to be short lived becasue of the increase in food prices around the world.