A Food Systems Intervention in Rural Timor-Leste Increased Household Fish Purchases and Women’s Fish Consumption: Results From a Randomized, Controlled Trial

Kendra Byrd, Alexander Tilley, Joctan Dos Reis Lopes, Lorenzo Longobardi, Gianna Bonis-Profumo, Katherine Klumpyan, Kelvin Shikuku. (1/7/2024). A Food Systems Intervention in Rural Timor-Leste Increased Household Fish Purchases and Women’s Fish Consumption: Results From a Randomized, Controlled Trial. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8.

Fish-aggregating devices (FADs) are simple devices commonly placed nearshore to attract fish and make them easier to catch. FADs help fishers adapt to climate change-related fishery declines and have been established as a tool to increase fish catch, but no study has evaluated whether this increase in catch makes its way into local households.