ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a simple methodology for assessing the potential impacts on farm household nutritional levels and cash income which would result from the introduction of Integrated agriculture-aquaculture into existing farming systems in Ghana. Nutritional demand and supply were estimated for each farm and the nutritional and economic impacts of adding a vegetable field and pond were considered. Analyses still to be completed of other minerals and amino acids are expected to demonstrate that the integration of vegetable fields and ponds performs an even more important nutritional function. This potential for nutritional enhancement assumes greater significance when one considers the continuing deforestation and increasing impoverishment of biotic conditions in Ghana, since the present sources of supply of mineral and amino acids are primarily the collected and hunted items of the natural biota. Integrating cultured fish into this farm system would add quantity and quality to the protein supply, such that demand for protein it would be satisfied.
