“The huge potential impact of extreme weather events on future food prices is missing from today’s climate change debate. The world needs to wake up to the drastic consequences facing our food system of climate inaction,” said Oxfam’s Climate Change Policy Adviser, Tim Gore
4 September 2012—New research shows that the full impact of climate change on future food prices is being underestimated, according to international agency Oxfam.
Oxfam’s new report, Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices, highlights how extreme weather events such as droughts and floods could drive up future food prices. Previous research has generally focused on gradual impacts, such as increasing temperatures and changing rainfall patterns.