some million people in africa were moderately or severely food insecure in compared with a marginal increase in moderate or severe food insecurity globally and a modest increase in latin america south east asia and western asia these figures compare with no change in the prevalence of severe food insecurity globally a significant deterioration in south east asia with an increase of per cent and a moderate increase of percent in western asia a total of million people in africa were severely food insecure in by far the majority of them or per cent were from rural areas