The Benguela Fisheries System is experiencing environmental and socio-economic challenges that hamper the sustainability of marine resources that thousands of people depend on for their nutrition, jobs and livelihoods. Such challenges are evident through climate variability and change, fisheries which are facing a number of social risks related to overfishing and economic development of the oceans and on the livelihoods of coastal communities in the region.
Although the region has benefited from extensive research, limited knowledge and understanding of the impacts climate change and capacity development of the impacts on marine ecosystem and the vulnerability of coastal populations to climate change.