Climate change threatens to delay the fight against world hunger for decades, according to a new report from Oxfam. From production to prices, the threats climate change poses to food supply are significant. Net global agricultural yields are predicted to decrease by up to 2% per decade while a rapidly rising global population is expected to increase demand for food by 14% per decade. Oxfam estimates that global food prices could double by 2030, with a shifting climate responsible for half of that rise. And in the next 35 years, there could be 25 million more malnourished children under the age of five than there would be without climate change affecting food availability.
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