Climate change raises risk of Indian farmer suicides | AFP

Her voice breaking as she talks, Mirabai Khindkar recalls her husband Amol's suicide. The farmer swallowed poison last year after scorching heat destroyed his crops, leaving him with massive debts to loan sharks. Amol was among thousands of Indian farmers to take their own lives in the last couple of years, with the country's already volatile agriculture sector becoming even more erratic as a result of climate change-induced extreme weather.