climate adaptation

Coronavirus could increase hunger for over 40m in Southern Africa

4 June 2020

40 million people in Southern Africa are at risk of increased hunger and poverty due to the double threat of the coronavirus and consecutive climatic shocks, warned Oxfam today.
Join the community of #ClimateChangers

1 April 2020

The climate crisis is wrecking the lives of millions of people, and those who did the least to cause the problem are the worst affected. The global climate movement is fighting this injustice – and every one of us has a part to play. Join our global community of #ClimateChangers to help us tackle the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Forced from home: climate-fuelled displacement

2 December 2019

Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk.
Poorest people get less than one cent per day to protect themselves from impacts of climate crisis

23 September 2019

Leaders must heed climate strikes and give vulnerable people the tools to survive.
Food, climate and natural resources

23 August 2019

Advancing the right of people living in poverty to sustainable livelihoods has been a cornerstone of Oxfam’s work for many decades. Our goal is to enable millions of women and communities to become more resilient to a changing climate, and to secure access to the land and natural resources on which they depend.
Hot and Hungry

25 March 2014

Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and our global food system is woefully unprepared to cope with the challenge.
Promoting local food security reserves in the Sahel

10 July 2013

Burkina Faso relies on subsistence agriculture to meet the basic needs of a large part of the population.
The Adaptation Challenge

15 November 2012

Climate change has serious implications for global food production and food security. This report uses data on current changes and future climate scenarios to examine possible impa
Durban Platform leaves world sleepwalking towards four degrees warming

11 December 2011

Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible.
Extreme weather endangers food security worldwide

28 November 2011

In the last year extreme weather events shocked global markets contributing to soaring wheat prices and imperiling food security in many parts of the world, according to research compiled by Oxfam at the start of the Durban climate talks.