In Pakistan's dry plains and productive deltas, climate change is no longer a hypothetical threat; it is a lived reality. That reality is best observed where land meets water, where women farmers in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan are reshaping resilience in the face of climate adversity. While water scarcity deepens and weather becomes increasingly volatile, these women are developing irrigation schemes, re-scheduling crop cycles, and, finally, determining the course of smallholder agriculture.

Pakistan's agriculture sector, which consumes over 90% of its available freshwater, is suffering under enormous stress from dwindling rivers, declining groundwater, and erratic monsoons. Women, who account for approximately 45% of Pakistan's agricultural labor force, are disproportionately impacted by these stresses. Owning a mere 2% of agricultural land though, these women farmers are emerging quietly as unheralded leaders in the area of water management.

Women have led raised-bed cultivation and drip irrigation in the Sindh's Badin and Thatta districts.........

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