923 Million People Went Hungry Last Year, U.N. says

The ranks of the world's hungry totaled some 923 million people in 2007, the United Nations estimates in a new report. The Food and Agriculture Organization blames much of the increase on rising prices that pushed an additional 75 million people below the "hunger threshold." "At regional level, the largest increases in the number of undernourished people as a result of rising food prices have taken place in Asia and in sub-Sahara Africa, the two regions, which combined, already accounted for 750 million, or 89% of the hungry people in the world.