UN World Food Day....global total of people in hunger to nearly one billion people

(files) Two-month-old Bakale is watched over by her mother at a medical center run by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) in the town of Kuyera on September 2, 2008. Bakale had trouble feeding from her mother's breast and for the first two months of her life she was given water and goat milk before she was taken to the centre suffering from severe malnutrition. Oxfam launched an urgent appeal to mark UN World Food Day on October 16, 2008 saying the financial crisis had sent food costs soaring and the global total of people in hunger to nearly one billion people. The British-based aid and development charity said rising food prices had pushed an extra 119 million people into hunger, meaning 967 million people were now living below the hunger line.

A young woman sits on the floor as she waits to receive medical help at the outpatient unit of a medical center run by MŽdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) (Doctors without Borders) in the town of Kuyera on September 4, 2008. Oxfam launched an urgent appeal to mark UN World Food Day on October 16, 2008 saying the financial crisis had sent food costs soaring and the global total of people in hunger to nearly one billion people. The British-based aid and development charity said rising food prices had pushed an extra 119 million people into hunger, meaning 967 million people were now living below the hunger line.

(FILES) A young girl suffering from severe malnutrition lies in a bed wrapped in cold-water soaked bandages applied to her in an effort to bring her high fever down moments after she was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of a medical centre run by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) in the town of Kuyera on September 2, 2008. Oxfam launched an urgent appeal to mark UN World Food Day on October 16, 2008 saying the financial crisis had sent food costs soaring and the global total of people in hunger to nearly one billion people. The British-based aid and development charity said rising food prices had pushed an extra 119 million people into hunger, meaning 967 million people were now living below the hunger line.