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Ardaman Singh is an experienced Indian farmer who have been cultivating for 35 years. He talks about the problems posed by the erratic rainfall and changed temperatures and how they are trying to compensate their income by growing vegetables and fodder in additon to the traditional crops. The vil...

Ruth Marigu Njue is a single mother with ten children living in the village Kururumo in Kenya. She is not enjoying farming as she used to and faces a lot of obstacles and problems with the warmer climate and the lack of rains. In the video she talks about the fast-growing crops she cultivates to ...

Mohamed Fakir is a a dairy farmer in Punjab India. He describes in the video how his cows milk production is steadily decreasing, largely due to the the changing climate and to the lack of water and water infrastructure. Mohamed is also concerned with the reduction in farmers choosing to produce ...

Dr. R.P. Singh, Deputy Faculty, Dept of Plant breeding and Genetics at the Punjab Agricultural University describes the decreased water availability due to climate change and how they are working to select crop varieties that need less water and to help farmer to make better use of irrigation.

Anastacia Muthoni is a widowed farmer living in Makengi, Kenya. In the video she talks about the difficulties associated with the lack of rainfalls, the irrigation of her farm, and how the farmers in the village have adapted to the changes in climate through crop diversification such as including...

Sir John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, outlines what will be needed to meet global food supply needs despite the impacts of climate change.

Hermann Togo—Ouahigouya (Yatenga province), Burkina Faso—a social worker in charge of CEF the "Conseil à l'Exploitation Familiale" (Advise for Family Enterprises), a farmers' union, talks about how they help farmers make informed decisions, and adapt to changes in the climate. One way the union h...

Arjun Sharma is the Village President and Chairman of the farmer cooperative PACS (Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society) in the village of Jamnapur, India. Arjun describes in the video how the cooperative supports farmers through different activities such as saving schemes, low-interest rate ...

Celeste Thia Kangani and Julia Ndia are two Kenyan farmers faced with orphaned grandchildren, decreasing yields and old age. They both describe how the weather has changed and there is less rains, but neither knows why these changes have come about. Before sweet potatoes and cassava were planted ...

Oh how sweet those potatoes can be! Faced with a changing climate, Kenyan farmer Emily Marigu Ireri diversified her crops to drive away hunger and poverty. Instead of only growing maize and beans in her farm, she now also plants sweet potatoes, regular potatoes and cassava. The sweet potatoes are...