About 100 million more people will be living in hunger in a year if unfair global agriculture practices are not changed, the head of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, warned Tuesday.

`We are faced with a situation where the number of people going hungry in the world has reached 923 million this year,` 75 million more than in 2007, he told a conference on EU farm policy at the European Parliament.

`According to our forecasts, if this situation continues, in a year this will increase by 100 million,` he said, criticising the policies of rich farming nations and the way agriculture is organised world-wide.

Diouf warned that the European Union`s farm subsidy system -- the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) -- and US farm bills were exacerbating the problem, with the world`s population set to climb to nine billion people in 2050.

`The CAP and farm bills are penalising third world farmers, and we have agriculture, at the level of international trade, which is unfair,` he said, lashing out at a lack of investment in the sector in developing nations.