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Vietnam's rice farmers coping with climate change

Christopher Johnson October 8, 2014

Vietnam cranks out a fifth of the world’s rice exports each year. But climate change is making oceans rise - right up into some of Vietnam's richest rice-growing areas. Saltwater is very bad news for rice. To find out what the changing climate means for Vietnam's rice farmers, reporter Christopher Johnson went to southern Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta - the country's rice-growing heartland.

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