Farmers need help to plan for droughts, not just to respond to them when things get desperate. Stephenallen75/Shutterstock.com August 8, 2018 To help drought‑affected farmers, we need to support them in good times as well as bad Jacki Schirmer, University of Canberra; Dominic Peel, University of Canberra; Ivan Charles Hanigan, University of Sydney, and Kimberly Brown, University of Canberra The government has offered emergency payments to drought-stricken farmers. But if we really care about them, we’ll also invest in long-term drought resilience measures to reduce impacts.
