Dhaka, July 2 -- led initiative titled "Climate Action at Local Level" (CALL) is driving visible change in agriculture, nutrition and local governance across the flood-prone char areas of Savar and the industrial belt of Gazipur.

The project is implemented by the OBHIZATRIK Foundation with technical support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and funding from the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh.

Under the project, 12 marginal smallholder farmers in Savar upazila received seeds of the modern, zinc-fortified and flood-tolerant BRRI Dhan-102 along with balanced fertilisers (DAP, MOP and Guti Urea).

Thanks to timely interventions before river waters rose in the vulnerable char areas, crops from 10 of the 12 demonstr...