16 FEBRUARY 2014
A new climate change adaptation strategy is taking off in Palau – community rearing of mangrove crabs. Farmers are being supplied with young crablets under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project, which is working to improve food security in the small island nation, and in particular to tackle the over-reliance on imported foods. A distribution of crablets in early February took the total to several thousand crabs that have been handed over to farmers over the last three years.
Read more at ReliefWeb: http://reliefweb.int/report/palau/mangrove-crabs-helping-palau-adapt-climate-change