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Participatory processes build adaptive capacity and agency and can help transform systems : an ASSAR cross-regional insight
Published date
2019
The study assesses the level of profitability of using improved smoking kilns and solar tent dryers in processing fish.
Evidence from the project has shown that improved fish smoking kilns and solar tent dryers are environmentally friendly, effective and economically viable fish processing technologies.
This Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) study shows that although participation of local actors is a key tenet of decentralisation, in reality it can be tokenistic or non-existent.