Grazing sub-system based on
Degree of Mobility and Land Tenure

In many traditional practices, rangeland and pastures are available as open or common access to communities of livestock farmers. This resource allows a wide range of flexibility to lead animals seasonally to the best pastures and to reach, if necessary, key resources during the dry season. On the other hand, some stock farmers have private access to pastures and are able to manage their own resources.

According to resource access, grazing systems are further classified to

- Mobile grazing systems: where pastoralist can move animals to use grasslands and browse extensively over wide areas.
- Sedentary grazing systems on communal grasslands : the stock farmers, permanently resident, use communal pastures extensively.
- Ranching and grassland farming: the ranchers and stock farmers are permanently resident and control the more or less extensive use and management of grasslands.

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