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Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is an integrated and strategic response to the challenges of sustainable development. It addresses climate targets, while also providing solutions around other issues such as food security and biodiversity conservation. Notwithstanding its increasing familiarity projects that could be characterised as “pure” EbA are still few and far between. Instead, the term is often used to describe a broad variety of interventions that seek to link climate adaptation and natural resource management.

Central to the lives of coastal communities in Fiji, inshore fisheries provide a crucial food and income source. Inshore fisheries also feed a huge demand for fish from the domestic market that, coupled with the lack of effective management, is placing fisheries under enormous stress.

The livelihoods of more than 4,000 residents of the Qoliqoli Cokovata rest in the sea. Marine resources provide food for subsistence and income to pay for everything else; access to health services, education and markets.