Shotgun wedding or happpy marriage? : integrating PRA and sample surveys in Malawi.

The way in which the PAPPA (Poverty Alleviation Programme Pilot Agroforestry Project) in Malawi combined PRA and formal survey techniques to monitor adoption levels of the project interventions is examined in this article. The pros and cons of the methodology in which random sample surveys using questionnaires were carried out first and then analysed in the field to provide key issues for further investigation using PRA tools are reflected on.