You might want to check in with this CSE report on serious drought unfolding all over India. But it was more than monsoon that was to blame, it argues. The change in the cropping practices from the ones suited to the local climates to the ones dictated by the arrival of green revolution technologies including the high-dam powered irrigation water is the major reason why farmers are all of a sudden finding it hard to deal with the unsettling climate changes.
Tomdispatch is reporting that drought is becoming a worldwide phenomena that is disrupting the food and agricultural production system all over the place.
Time to wake up to this and begin refocussing on building resiliant local systems.
