Climate Change Adaptation in Aquatic Food Systems: Examples from Seaweed Farming in Timor-Leste

Climate change is challenging aquatic food systems worldwide. In Timor-Leste, where floods, cyclones, droughts and deforestation threaten rural livelihoods, even small shocks can push communities below subsistence levels.

Through the IkanAdapt project – funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), led by FAO with WorldFish and Timor-Leste’s Directorate General of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Resource Management (DGPAGRA) – 21 fishing and fish farming communities (suku) in seven districts (municipo) are testing bottom up approaches to adaptation.

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