Is the State Government Trying to Get Farmers to Diversify for Rice?

India and Pakistan have been sweltering under an unprecedented heatwave, the severity of which scientists attribute to climate change. In this episode we explore how much worse heatwaves in the region could get and how farmers can prepare for it.

Featuring Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, a research associate in climate science at the University of Bristol in the UK, Andrew King, a senior Lecturer in climate science at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Shruti Bhogal, who's just finished working as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

This episode of The Conversation Weekly was produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware. Sound design is by Eloise Stevens and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available shortly.

Further reading

• India heatwave: why the region should prepare for even more extreme heat in the near future 
• How to survive a heatwave 
• A climate scientist on India and Pakistan’s horror heatwave, and the surprising consequences of better air quality
• Young Indian farmers are turning to an ancient crop to fight water stress and climate change