In-depth surveys & action research

Since July, the team has been busy with the in-depth surveys. These are follow-on surveys after the integrated survey we did last Nov 2010 to March 2011. The respondents for the follow-on surveys are a subset of the 405 farmers we interviewed during the integrated survey.

These are the types of in-depth surveys and their status:

• Chemical shops (WP6&7) - already conducted
• Chemical use in farms (WP6&7) - on-going
• Livelihood surveys (WP5) - on-going
• Collecting tilapia samples for FZT (WP6) - on-going
• Collecting water, sediment and feed samples (WP4) - waiting for farm list
• Life Cycle Assessment/Life Cycle Costing (WP3&5) - contacting prospective respondents across the value chain

All the research sites have been reported to be affected by the flooding in Thailand so access to the farms is limited at the moment.

We are also planning for the action research (WP9) with SMEs (local and European) which will be implemented next year.