World “woefully unprepared” for climate impacts on food

A press release from Oxfam: ...Oxfam’s briefing paper, ‘Hot and Hungry: How to stop climate change derailing the fight against hunger’ analyses ten key factors that will have an increasingly important influence on countries’ ability to feed their people in a warming world. Across all ten areas, Oxfam found serious gaps between what governments are doing and what they need to do to protect our food systems. The results also show that while many countries – both rich and poor – are unprepared for the impact of climate change on food security, it is the world’s poorest and most food insecure among them that are least prepared and most at risk. The ten gaps, “failing” policy areas that will undermine the world’s ability to feed itself in a warming world, are:

• International adaptation finance (score: <1 li="">
• Crop irrigation (score: < 1/10)...
• Crop insurance (score < 2/10)...
• Agricultural research and development (R&D) (score: 2/10):....
• Social protection (score: 3/10)...
• Weather forecasting (score: 3/10)...
• Gender discrimination (score: 5/10)...
• Food stocks (score 5/10)...
• Agricultural investment (score: 7/10)...
• Humanitarian aid (score: 6/10)...