ALCOM (Aquaculture for Local Community Development Programme) undertook a socio-economic study of the relationship between aquaculture and agriculture farming systems in Mwinilunga District of North-Western Province of Zambia during June 1989.
The Farming Systems Research (FSR) undertaken by the provincial branch of the Adaptive Research Planning Team (ARPT), which is the Zambian institution carrying out farming systems research, defined the framework of the study. The farming systems as classified and described by ARPT constituted the reference against which fish farming activities were investigated.
Background information was also provided by the ALCOM socio-economic survey of fish farmers in Zambia (referred to as “the Fish Farmer Survey”). The survey gave information on production levels and socio-economic characteristics of fish farmers.
