Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. The fishery sector is also greatly affected by climate change. Rain-fed agriculture is primarily impacted due to rainfall variability and a reduction in the number of rainy days. Climate change heavily impacts the world’s water systems through frequent flooding and droughts. Smallholder fishers and farmers in India call on our leaders to act now.
Watch the Focus Group Discussion conducted by the Institute for Motivating Self Employment (IMSE) in India on 1 August 2021 via Zoom:
We Are Watching is a monumental eye, made up of thousands of portraits contributed from 190 countries. It flies high above cities on a flag the size of a 10-story building. Raised at key climate events to hold leaders accountable as they decide the future of our planet, its message is crystal-clear: the eyes of the world are upon you. Artivist Dan Archer’s globally participative work first flew at Madrid’s COP25 UN Climate Change Conference. Its ongoing mission is to take the eyes of the world around the globe. Know more about this campaign at https://wearewatching.org/
The We Are Watching campaign is supported by the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), the Asia-Pacific Farmers Program (APFP), and the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
For more information, go to asianfarmers.org/we-are-watching/
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