Fact of the Day

Levels of hunger have grown for the past three years, with one in nine people - or 821 million - worldwide without enough to eat, due to drought, floods, conflict and economic slowdowns, U.N. figures show.

"We don't see improvement in terms of poverty and hunger. What we see is degradation and resources that would be lost for future generations. So there's an emergency," said Frederic Mousseau, a food policy expert at U.S.-based Oakland Institute. "Agriculture and the way we produce our food and the way we consume our food has to have a major solution."