Act now to feed 1 billion hungry people and save 6 million children a year facing death from starvation

A lingering drought in a number of areas in grain-abundant Southeast Asian countries and China's southwestern regions in recent months has renewed worries over global food security.

The number of people facing food shortages worldwide reached 1.02 billion last year, the first time it crossed the 1 billion mark since 1970, when a record number of people faced hunger, statistics have shown.