We Must Help Farmers Prepare for a Transformed Climate. This Scientist is Showing Us How.

A Q&A on food justice and security with Sonali McDermid, PhD

Yasmin Tayag
Future Human
Published in
9 min readApr 6, 2021

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A farmer harvests wheat crop in a field on the outskirts of Faridabad, India on April 4, 2021. Photo: MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images

Before she started thinking about the future of food, climate scientist Sonali McDermid, PhD, studied the ancient past. Specifically, the Pleistocene era, a period 3 million years ago when warming global…

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Yasmin Tayag
Future Human

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.