Policy Notes
		Animal Health Delivery
		Access to Land and Water
		International Standards and Food Safety
		Market Access
		Dairy Smallholder Development
		Livestock and PRSP

• Theme: Access to Land and Water

Access to grazing and water is mostly communal in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is ecologically the most appropriate form of resource management for the arid and semi-arid areas of SSA.

However, indigenous management structures with traditionally regulated access are breaking down, and, because of the lack of a clear vision and inappropriate policies and regulations, are being replaced by a “free for all”.

Current opinions range from complete settlement of pastoralists to re-establishment of the traditional systems. New access forms and resource use approaches, probably through co-management (public-associative and community) institutions, which would address the underlying forces causing the current situation, need to be developed, to bring together this wide range of opinions. 

• Development state

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