Ex-ante assessment of integrated aquaculture-agriculture adoption and impact in Southern Malawi

摘要: There are increasing requirements for impact assessment by development partners in order to increase the accountability and effectiveness of research projects. Impact has been dominated conventional economic methods. This context challenges agricultural organizations develop apply alternative methods incorporating economic, social, environmental components. In this study, we use Tradeoff Analysis Multi-Dimensional Assessment (TOA-MD) model evaluate integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) adoption Malawi. The study demonstrated that with a minimal data set, TOA-MD can be applied predict assess rates new technologies practices as well their non-economic impacts.