Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Viet Nam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote and disseminate this practice. The practice of raised beds has been recognized as suitable for broader replication in flood prone areas only recently, and communities have started to engage in cultivating lotus in low lying flood prone areas.