SocietyVietnam’s Indigenous Hmong People Forced to Adapt to Climate Crisis

The Indigenous Hmong have lived for centuries in the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam. Today, their farming communities are on the front line of a worsening climate crisis. Higher temperatures, erratic rainfall and landslides have become part of everyday life. Rice terraces maintained by generations of villagers are struggling, while deforestation is driving the loss of important medicinal plants.