Oxfam Releases New Report on "Growing a Better Future"

Right now there are 925 million hungry people worldwide and it is possible that this number will climb to 1billion by the end of the year due to extreme weather and rising food prices. That would be the highest level since the food crisis in 2008, when there were food protests in 61 countries. By 2050, when the world will be coping with some of the worst effects of climate change, world population could exceed 9 billion, with 4 billion of those people living in areas that are chronically short of water. 

A recently released Oxfam report, “Growing a Better Future: Food Justice in a Resource-Constrained World,” looks at the year 2030, and predicts that the prices of basic food commodities will continue to rise, making food too expensive for many people living in severe poverty.  It warns that the situation could be particularly bleak in sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to experience the most rapid population growth and some of the worst effects of climate change.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/papers/growing-better-future.html

http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2011/06/06/9-billion-people-climate-change-and-food-prices/