UN food warning

Some government ministers are now gathered in Madrid, Spain for a United Nations conference on tackling high food prices.



Two reports have warned that hundreds of millions more people will go hungry if governments fail to act.



The British charity, Oxfam said climate change and decades of under-investment in agriculture, will add to the effects of the current economic crisis in worsening food shortages.



And the Royal Institute of International Affairs said demand for food will increase as the world\'s population grows from 6 point 5 billion to more than nine billion by 2050.



Meanwhile, Head of the United Nation\'s World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran, is warning that the world may be reaching a point where it can no longer cope with the number of hungry people.



She said the world may be witnessing a fundamental breakdown in food markets and a number of nations need urgent help.