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No Thumbnail AvailableProjectSocio-economic study of fishing communities along Lake Mweru, Luapula province, Zambia 1994
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No results found.A survey was carried out of fishing communities along Lake Mweru in Luapula Province, Zambia. The survey consisted of three elements: discussions with fisheries officials; a literature review; monitoring and research activities. Two research teams of three each, assisted by government personnel, surveyed two research sites: Kasembe along the northern coastline, and Kafulwe/Kasungwa along the west coast. The survey yielded information about the infrastructure, services and development activiti es in the area. Socio-economic data on the population was obtained. An activity profile and a resources profile were drawn up. Information was obtained about the social organization of fishing camps, and the effects of high immigration on this social organization. -
No Thumbnail AvailableProjectIntegration of fish farming into the farm-household system in Luapula Province, Zambia.
Report of a mission, 13 August - 10 October 1989
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No results found.A three-member ALCOM mission visited Zambia during August-October 1989, to study and promote the integration of fish farming into the traditional farm household system in Luapula province. The mission spent six weeks in Luapula province and two weeks in Lusaka. Information was gathered on household resources and production systems. Political, economic and socio-economic data were also collected. Besides studying available and published information, the mission met key officials from governme nt, private institutions, development agencies, and the church, besides individuals with long experience in Luapula. Several field visits were made, in the course of which 34 individual fish farmers were interviewed. Representatives from three schools and a training institute that had ponds, a fish farming project for handicapped people, two farmers without fish ponds, and several fishermen and fisherwomen were also interviewed. Three group interviews were conducted. The mission focused on fou r of the five districts of Luapula province: Mansa, Mwense, Kawambwa and Samfya. Farm household systems in the province generally encompass five productions systems: crop, livestock and poultry, fishing, fish farming and utilization. The crop production system is composed of three sub-systems:-chitemene : shifting cultivation system producing mainly food crops; farm : permanent or semi-permanent dry land agriculture productions systems producing both cash and food crops; garden : irrigat ed crop production system mainly producing food crops. The livestock system is of minor relevance in the Province. However, poultry are found in every household. Fishing activities are important in areas along the Luapula River, Lake Mweru and Lake Bangweulu. The fishermen of the Bangweulu Lake and swamps spend an important part of their time in fishing camps on the islands or in the swamps. For them any other kind of activity is secondary. -
No Thumbnail AvailableProjectTilapia culture by farmers in Luapula Province, Zambia 1992
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No results found.In 1988, ALCOM carried out a fish farmer survey in Luapula Province of Zambia in cooperation with the Department of Fisheries. Field work was done during June-August 1988. The purposes of the survey were: to describe the current situation of fish farmers and to find out how it can be improved; to identify the farmer who is likely to successfully raise fish in ponds; to describe how the farmers do that; and, to identify the constraints which farmers face. Agriculture in Luapula Provin ce is carried out at a subsistence level. Farmers spread their risks and assure their own sustenance by culturing several crops and by engaging in off-farm activities. A relatively small part of their total incomes is in the form of cash. About half of the adult male population in the province engage in capture fisheries or ancillary activities. In 1985 the production was estimated at about 23 000 tons. The conditions for fish farming are good. Land and water are available, and the population eat fish. About 280 farmers in the province engaged in fish farming in 1988. The survey was intended to cover about 25% of the practising farmers plus intending farmers. This meant a goal of 100 interviews. The survey was preceded by a Department of Fisheries census to identify existing (and past) farmers with fish ponds. The interviews were carried out during two visits in the course of June and August 1988. The survey team consisted of an aquaculturist and a social science graduate. Altogeth er 94 interviews were carried out of which 51 were with practising fish farmers, 20 with former fish farmers and 23 with potential fish farmers. The survey questionnaires were designed by ALCOM and slightly modified after their use in the North-Western Province.
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