Extreme hunger soaring in world’s climate hotspots, says Oxfam

A Somali mother holds her malnourished daughter at a camp near Mogadishu for people internally displaced by the country’s record drought. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

Extreme hunger is closely linked to the climate crisis, with many areas of the world most affected by extreme weather experiencing severe food shortages, research has shown.

The development charity Oxfam examined 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots, afflicted by drought, floods, severe storms and other extreme weather, and found their rates of extreme hunger had more than doubled in the past six years.