Robert Sanscartier<p>Sri Lanka’s Climate Exodus</p><p>Soon after Ravindra Lamosia started working as a tenant farmer more than a decade ago, he learned the hard way that climate extremes could swiftly destroy his family’s livelihood. The first year, his farm, located near the Sri Lankan town of Talawa, flooded. The second year, a drought destroyed the entire rice paddy, along with any hope of an income that season</p><p>(text available in “reading mode”)</p><p><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/08/sri-lanka-climate-change-agriculture-women-farmers-migration-middle-east/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/08/s</span><span class="invisible">ri-lanka-climate-change-agriculture-women-farmers-migration-middle-east/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SriLanka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SriLanka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a></p>