What does climate change have to do with rice?
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 2015-02-03

Margaret is a Dalit Christian from Trichy, Tamil Nadu. She is a staunch human rights activist and feminist who has been working with her community and women's groups. She is exasperated with the media in her state which has no space for the voices of dalits, tribals and women. 

In Tamil Nadu, farmers tell Margaret that they have exhausted all means trying to protect their harvest. Even then, the effects of climate change has proved to be too drastic for them to cope: 

"All our crops were washed away," says a paddy farmer, "Nothing we plant will stay because of excess water in our fields."


This video is part of a project by Video Volunteers and the Indian Network for Ethics and Climate Change to document the effects of climate change on local communities across 14 states in India. These communities tell our CCs how changing weather patterns affects their livelihoods and that little has been done to help them cope.

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