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Author
Harrison, ElizabethDate
1993
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The study is part of a research project, funded by the ODA, which aims to assess socioeconomic dimensions of aquaculture development in Africa. The main field work component of the research was based in Luapula Province, Zambia. The present study reconsiders the findings from Luapula in the light of a comparison with fish farming in the Lake Basin Area, Kenya. Literature on aquaculture development in Kenya stresses weaknesses in managerial capacity, in planning, and in the functioning of extension. Many of these problems are similar to those identified in Zambia. In addition, aquaculture development has been constrained by the divergent agendas and priorities of donors and host governments. The project "Development of Small-Scale Fish Farming in the Lake Basin Area, Kenya", has been beset by a series of false starts, poor donor-host relations, and misuse of funds. No attempt was made to assess or identify the needs of the supposed beneficiaries. Several evaluations have drawn attention to these problems over the ten years that the project has been operating. The current phase of the project, September 1992-December 1994, has involved reorganisation and significant changes in direction. This is the focus of the study.Pages
41pp.Publisher or University
University of Sussex, Schoool of African and Asian StudiesCollections