World Unprepared for Threats from Warmer Climate, Oxfam Says

The world is “woefully unprepared” for the threat to food security from drought and flooding brought on by a warming climate, the development charity Oxfam said.

In addition to extreme weather patterns, more marginal shifts such as small increases in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns are already harming food production, Oxford, England-based Oxfam said in a report.

“Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger,” Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said in a statement.  “It could have grave consequences for what we all eat but the world is woefully under prepared for it.”

World Unprepared for Threats from Warmer Climate, Oxfam Says