Appendix 4:
CHECKLIST FOR INTERVIEWS WITH KEY INFORMANTS

1. Resources for fish farming:

   • Physical sites - land, water, soil
   • Labour - activity profile and household composition
   • Capital - income earning activities
   • Fingerlings
   • Feeds
   • Fertilizer

   • Knowledge

2. Social relations:

   • Kinship, ownership and decision making
   • Type of settlement (scattered or clustered, after which criteria?)
   • Religion
   • Opinion leaders
   • Taboos
     • witch craft
     • consumption of specific fish species
     • handling of manure

     • other

3. Market relations:

   • Demand/supply of fish (locally and in town)
   • Preservation of fish
   • Transport
   • Marketing together with other products

   • Prices, trends

4. Attributes:

   • degree of relative advantage
     • profitability
     • source of relish
     • risks

     • status

   • observability

     • seeing the pond and fish farming activities

     • seeing the benefits of fish farming

   • Attitude towards semi-intensive fish farming and innovations

   • The reason why some farmers are managing the ponds more intensively than others