Opinion
8 January 2026
A New Kind of Climate Hunger: The Climate Risk India Has Yet to Recognise
Heat is reshaping diets, work and wellbeing; policy must respond
Paul Stainier is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania. Manisha Shah is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan Barreca is a Professor at the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles.
SDG 2: Zero Hunger | SDG 13: Climate Action
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare MoAFW | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoHFW
The discussion in this article is based on the authors’ working paper published in NBER (No. 34047), a revised version of which has been accepted at JAERE. Views are personal.
