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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