Vietnam - Mekong Delta - Portrait of a farmer affected by climate change

Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."

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Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."