Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Prices To Soar

ThinkProgress: A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming decades. Oxfam had previously warned that corn or maize would see a 177% rise in price by 2030 due to climate change and other factors (see Oxfam: Extreme Weather Has Helped Push Tens of Millions into "Hunger and Poverty" in "Grim Foretaste" of Warmed World). Further modeling the impact of warming-driven extreme weather shocks leads Oxfam to conclude corn prices...

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