the population - or more than 864 million people - who were severely food insecure, meaning they had run out of food at times during the year and, at worst, gone an entire day or more without eating.

Inequality in the distributions of assets, resources and income, compounded by the absence or scarcity of welfare provisions in the poorest of countries, is further undermining access to food. Nearly a tenth of the world population still lives on US$1.90 or less a day, with sub-Saharan Africa