Land Tenure Policies relating to Sedentarisation.

Where spontaneous settlement of pastoralists is occurring, the process will need to be guided by policy to mitigate impacts on the environment and to address equity issues within and between pastoralist communities and between pastoralists and sedentary communities. Some considerations are as follows:

- Land tenure under conditions of sedentarisation will need to be backed by a thorough stakeholder analysis of all the groups using the land under question on a sedentary basis, seasonally or intermittently.
- Special protection will need to be given to areas used as drought-time grazing reserves by pastoralists
- Even where pastoralists settle, there will be advantages of flexibility in managing rangelands outside villages on a common-property rather than an individual basis
- Pastoralists may settle pre-emptively under conditions where land in the vicinity of their dry season pastures is rapidly being claimed by others. In such cases granting of secure title, possibly on a group basis, may allow the maintenance of pastoral mobility.
- Granting of title, on a group or individual basis, will need to be based on a realistic assessment of the multiple objectives of pastoralist livestock accumulation, and therefore the numbers of animals pastoralists will wish to maintain, at least in the medium term.

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