Growing Rice in Floodwaters
When floods swept through Adior Akol Deng’s village in Old Fangak, South Sudan, she struggled to find enough to feed her seven children. As a survivor of South Sudan’s 1998 famine, she feared that her children would meet the same fate.
In 2022, Action Against Hunger came to Old Fangak, South Sudan, to respond to the region’s crisis. The village was nearly all submerged, and Action Against Hunger had to act quickly to mitigate the dire effects. Teams launched an innovative new project by deciding to use the floods to their advantage. They taught farmers in Old Fangak how to grow rice within the flood waters.
