Frontline of climate change

Project goal: Climate adaptation
Measures: Training for women to adapt to climate change and secure alternative ways to earn money
Project size: 350 women in rural regions in southeastern Bangladesh
Project funding: 138,000 Euros financed by International Climate Initative via Gender CC and Centre for Global Change, a local NGO

Soils with high salt levels are incapable of producing good harvests. Droughts or floods often worsen the situation. Women in southeastern Bangladesh are now using particularly robust rice and vegetable varieties to ensure plentiful harvests, a part of which they can sell to make extra money. The participation of women in agricultural work is by no means a common sight in Bangladesh. Women take care of their families in this male-dominated society and usually don’t appear in public. But Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries and hard hit by global warming, needs the support of women to fight and adapt to climate change. Bangladeshi aid group Centre for Global Change is now making that possible with the robust rice project.

A film by Julia Henrichmann