On the eve of a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. Provisional FAO estimates: The number of undernourished people in 2007 increased by 75 million, over and above FAO's estimate of 848 million undernourished in 2003-05, with much of this increase attributed to high food prices. This brings the number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million in 2007, of which 907 million in the developing world. Given the continued and drastic increase in prices of staple cereals and oil crops well into 2008, the number of people suffering