Reuters - Famine threat in Africa's Sahel eases - for now
Reuters reports: "Abundant rains in Chad have raised hopes for an end to severe food shortages but the effects will linger and lead to new difficulties across Africa's Sahel region in 2011, aid workers predict. With signs that neighbouring Niger has also got over the worst of a food crisis triggered by last year's drought, the threat of all-out famine in the semi-arid Sahel zone just south of the Sahara appears to be subsiding."

CNN - U.N.: World hunger down but still 'unacceptable'
CNN reports: "The good news is that improving economies in developing nations is allowing more people to eat better, but the United Nations estimates that nearly 1 billion people will still face chronic hunger this year."

BBC News - Global hunger 'unacceptably high', UN report says
BBC News reports: "Global hunger has fallen this year but remains 'unacceptably high', a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said. The FAO estimates there are 925 million undernourished people in 2010, compared with 1.02 billion in 2009."

AOL News - Scientist Sounds Global Famine Warning Amid Growing Food Price Concerns
AOL News reports: "At an international agricultural biotechnology conference in Canada, an Australian scientist and journalist gave a dire keynote address Monday, warning global governments to pay greater attention to the possibility of coming global famine."