-- In Africa, per capita food production has declined by 12 percent since 1981
-- Developing countries will probably need another 120 million hectares (463,000 square miles), an area nearly the size of South Africa, to feed themselves by 2030
-- The proportion of Africans living below the poverty line rose from 47.6 percent in 1985 to 59 percent in 2000
-- Availability of clean freshwater is declining yet water use is predicted to be risen by 50 percent in developing countries by 2025
-- Ten percent of the world's major rivers fail to reach the sea for part of the year because they are so drained for irrigation
-- Fishing capacity, helped by subsidies,