Oxfam's report details how climate change is exacerbating food insecurity through more extreme weather events that destroy crops and kill livestock, leading to food shortages, poor quality food, and higher prices, making people hungry. The report identifies 10 gaps that need to be addressed to strengthen food systems under climate change, including increasing adaptation finance, social protection programs, and public investment in agriculture. Oxfam works in southern countries helping communities install weather stations and adapt to climate impacts through projects like crop diversification. They are campaigning governments and large businesses to do more by reducing emissions in global climate negotiations and supply chains.

1. Climate change & food
security
Sara Johnson 21st
May 2014
Sara Johnson Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace, 13th
June 2014

2. Climate Change & Food Security
 Climate Change is making people hungry:
Oxfam’s Hot & Hungry report
 Oxfam’s climate change work in southern countries
 Campaigning on Food & Climate: Taking on government &
big business

3. CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING PEOPLE HUNGRY
Extreme
weather
Destroys crops
and kills
livestocks
Food shortages,
poor quality and
price hikes
People hungry

4. CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING PEOPLE
HUNGRY

5. HOT & HUNGRY- 10 gaps:
1. Adaptation Finance
2. Social Protection
3. Food Crisis Aid
4. Food Stocks
5. Gender
6. Public agricultural investment
7. Agricultural research
8. Crop irrigation
9. Crop insurance
10. Weather monitoring
Read the report: www.oxfam.org/foodclimatejustice

6. Oxfam’s work in Southern countries
“I see the climate is changing a lot.
Before it wasn’t like this. Sometimes
these days, with the cold and frost,
the grass gets really dry. Often people
get pessimistic because of the lack of
water here, but if you work hard, you
can do it.”
Virginia Ñuñonca, Peru

7. Oxfam’s work in Southern countries
Weather stations
Ricardina, Peru

8. CAMPAIGNING
 UK & EU negotiations

9. CAMPAIGNING
 Global negotiations: Lima 2014, Paris 2015
 Ban Ki-moon Climate Summit Sept, 2014

10. CAMPAIGNING
 Big businesses to reduce emissions in their supply chain
 Behind the Brands – Kellogg’s & General Mills

11. Behind the Brands Video
http://youtu.be/438BOU-zvJI

12. Any questions?
Contact Details
Sara Johnson – Campaigner
sarajohnson@oxfam.org.uk
www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved
www.oxfam.org/foodclimatejustice