Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of the State of Food Insecurity in the World show a slight glimmer of hope, with the first fall since 1995. But that still leaves nearly a billion people hungry, and it is too early to know if this is the beginning of a downward trend or merely a momentary dip in the number of undernourished.