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Weather wrecking food supply, says report

7 Sep 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 for the first time how extreme weather events such as droughts and floods could drive up future food prices.


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