The world will have 100 million extra hungry people by 2015, say scientists.
Despite great improvements in food availability in the 1960s and 1970s, these trends are reversing in many developing countries, they say.
The United Nations' goal of halving hunger by 2015 looks unattainable without new technologies and greater financial investment, they add.
Ten pre-school children die every minute from malnutrition and this number has not changed since the early 1980s despite global promises.
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