Extreme weather due to global warming pushes millions into
'hunger, poverty', says Oxfam London, Nov 28(ANI): Extreme
weather due to global warming is pushing up food prices and
putting the world's most poor people at risk, Oxfam has warned.
The warning comes in the wake of people in the drought-hit Horn
of Africa and Afghanistan facing food shortages due to sky-
rocketing prices of wheat, sorghum and maize. Oxfam said soaring
prices threatened food security, and pushed poor people into
hunger and poverty, since they would a larger proportion of
their income on feeding themselves and their families. Extreme
weather conditions such as the 2010 drought, heatwave and fires
in Russia pushed global grain prices by upto 85 per cent, and
this year's monsoon floods in South East Asia increased the
price of rice by between 19 per cent and 30 per cent in
Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. "From the Horn of Africa and
South East Asia to Russia and Afghanistan, a year of floods,
droughts and extreme heat has helped push ten