The second day of the workshop involved a field trip to rice growing villages located an hour’s drive outside of Bangkok in Pathum Thani Province, to meet with rice farmers to discuss how climate change and climate variability affect farm production, crop yields, and labor time.

The farmers shared with the workshop participants how the nature of rice farming has transformed over the past decades, and the challenges they faced in relation to increasingly unpredictable climate patterns, urban development encroaching onto farmlands, and the uncertain future of rice farming as younger generations transition away from rural livelihoods.