FAO unveiled a major online petition calling on people to get angry at the fact that around a billion people suffer from hunger.

The online petition calls upon governments to make the elimination of hunger their top priority. A yellow whistle works as an icon encouraging people to blow the whistle against hunger.
If you feel the same way, express your anger about world hunger by adding your names to the global 1billion hungry petition at http://www.1billionhungry.org."

Events to support the 1billionhungry campaign are being organized in cities around the world.

If the world continues at the current pace of hunger reduction, the Millennium Development Goal of halving the percentage of hungry people by 2015 will not be met.

Of the around one billion hungry people, 642 million live in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42 in the Near East and North Africa and 15 million people in developed countries.

FAO estimates that global agricultural production needs to grow by 70 percent if the estimated 9 billion people that will inhabit the planet in 2050 are to be fed.