Activity 3: Design of Policy and Technology Options

The design of policy options in LEAD’s “livestock in dryland management programme” will focus on institutional innovations to promote equitable resource access and benefit-sharing mechanisms. This will be complemented by suitable technologies to reduce grazing pressure in critical areas and to reduce wildlife biodiversity degradation. This will be achieved by the design of:

• community-based development programmes based on benefit-sharing of wildlife revenues and participatory land use planning, based on integrated policy-technology combinations
• policy and technology options to enhance the ability of pastoralists to mitigate the effects of drought and to enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods
• policy and technology options to be included as integrated components in watershed development programmes in India
• policy and technology options for the management of central Asian grassland will be developed based on the above review