We’re All in the Same Lifeboat Now

Climate change comes for farmers — from Mozambique to Iowa

Photo: Brian Strombeck

It felt ominous when I was in Iowa in March that both Iowa and Mozambique were underwater from cyclone-induced flooding widely attributed to climate change. I’d studied and written about both places in my recent book. These farming communities are as distant from one another — geographically and developmentally — as they could be, yet there they…