HUMANITARIAN RELIEF: ‘UN, partners warn 108 million people face severe food insecurity worldwide’, UN News Centre, 31 March 2017.

Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people worldwide were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a UN -backed report on food crises that offers benchmark for action needed to avoid catastrophe. 'The cost in human and resource terms only increases if we let situations deteriorate," said UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva, in a news release on the Global Report on Food Crises 2017. 'UN, partners warn 108 million people face severe food insecurity worldwide', UN News Centre, 31 March 2017.