Climate Change

For migrant farmers cultivating informally rented land in Delhi's Madanpur Khadar, rising temperatures raise the cost of survival. With work depending on access to water, secure land tenure, and access to markets, extreme heat exacerbates these conditions, making long hours of work more difficult and livelihoods more uncertain. This fieldwork account explores how heat is experienced by farmers who fall outside conventional employer-employee relationships, and why heat adaptation must look beyond exposure alone to the wider conditions that shape their ability to work and survive