Climate change will cause the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat to more than double over the next 20 years. It's already starting in China.
Climate change does more than just wreak havoc on the weather; an unpredicatable climate makes it hard to farm, which causes the food in your local grocery store to become a lot more expensive. A new report from Oxfam explains that the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat will more than double over the next 20 years because of climate change--and events in China are already proving the extent of the issue.
A perfect storm of problems is coming together to threaten the world's food supply: oil price spikes (this translates into increased transportation and fertilizer costs), increased competition for land from biofuel and other non-food producers, and, of course, unpredictable weather.
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