Percorsi di ricerca-azione nell’ambito delle problematiche degli interventi di cooperazione: il caso della pescicoltura in Repubblica Centrafricana

A critical approach to the concepts of development and sustainable development provides the basis of the research activity presented in this Ph.D. Dissertation. The research activity delimits its own investigation area: starting from a critical review of the concepts of ‘Development Countries’, ‘North-South’ dialogue’, and the ‘Development Aid actions’ leads to focus the research work on a ‘case study’: the fish farming activities in the Central African Republic carried out within the framework of cooperation interventions. The analysis and the activity carried on by means of a ‘research-action’ process and by applying both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, aim at pointing out scientifically adequate and concrete improvements. The analysis provided concrete solutions to critical aspects of cooperation actions. For each methodology, the effectiveness, the mutual interaction and integration have been assessed together with possible improvements. Furthermore, in the above framework, the results presented in this Ph.D. Dissertation provide a starting point for the development of an effective language linking scientists and the stakeholders of the realities under investigation.