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Intensifying heat waves threaten South Asia’s struggling farmers – many of them women

  • Written by Emily M L Southard, Ph.D. Candidate in Rural Sociology and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
Intensifying heat waves threaten South Asia’s struggling farmers – many of them womenIncreasingly, it's women who are harvesting crops as heat waves worsen.Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Sitting in a semi-circle in the yard outside of a village school in Nepal, a group of farmers share their concerns about the future. They discuss how the rain is unreliable – droughts and floods are both becoming more common. The heat is...

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