SUPER EL NINO AND CLIMATE CHANGE WILL PUT MILLIONS AT RISK OF HUNGER

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While Australian farmers nervously wait to see how a forecast El Nino might affect food production, Oxfam has released a new report that finds at least 10 million poor people around the world, including at least two million people in the Pacific, face hunger this year and next due to droughts and erratic rains, influenced by climate change and the likely development of a "super El Nino".In Entering Uncharted Waters: El Nino and the Threat to Food Security, Oxfam says crops have already failed in Southern Africa and Central America, driving up the price of maize in local markets. Ethiopia and parts of South East Asia are suffering from the effects of drought and are braced for worse in coming months.