Magazine : Summer 2026 : feature Hidden Impact For women working in India’s fields and factories, gender disparities heighten the risk of climate-linked chronic kidney disease. Rayya Saroja, a 54-year-old former cashew farmer, has been living with chronic kidney disease for nearly a decade. Photo by Kanika Gupta. Kanika Gupta RAYYA SAROJA, 54, worked on a cashew farm in Chinavanka, a small village in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, for two decades.