The table gives information about the number of the undernourished across the globe, while the accompanying graph illustrates global price change in two main food grains: rice and wheat. Both charts depict statistics from 2000 to 2009.
Provided by the chart, there was an upward trend for the count of undernourished people in the decade. 857 million people were in lack of nutrition in 2000, and the number rose marginally before 2006. Then. figures skyrocketed significantly between 2006 and 2009, ending in over one billion undernourished people in 2009.
In the line graph, both food sources saw an apparent climb in the cost by ton. The price of wheat started the decade with around $200 per ton, and had an increase between 2000 and 2002, before plummeting to around $300 each ton in 2006. After that, the cost increased significantly, reaching to nearly $1200 by the end of the decade, almost six times of the price in 2000. Prices for rice was similar to that of wheat in 2000, then had a plateau in the coming 4 years. A small climb was observed from 2004 to 2006, before rising to about $900 each ton, around 4.5 times of that in 2000.
Overall, upward trends were observed in the figures of undernourished population and cost of both grains in the decade, suggesting some interplay between the prices and the scale of the undernourished.