Three months after widespread flooding that has affected over 5 million people in southern Pakistan, a critical shortage of funding and broad international disinterest has left millions of people at risk of illness, malnutrition and cold as the winter closes in.
Archives for November 29, 2011
Extreme weather endangers food security: 2010-11, A grim foretaste of future suffering and hunger?
This Oxfam media brief documents some of the devastating impacts that extreme weather events have had on global, regional and local food security in 2010-11, and the severe consequences for the lives and livelihoods of people in poverty. Our failure to cope with the climate variability and shocks of today presents a daunting outlook for food security tomorrow. For governments around the world this serves as an urgent call to act at the UN climate talks in Durban if the extreme weather events witnessed in 2010-11 are not to be a grim foretaste of future suffering and hunger.
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