Funding should be sought to support regional cooperation
schemes (networks) to look at some of the highlighted research topics.
Working groups should be formed in each country to implement
the activities. Issues that could be addressed could include:
- Halting the decline of the Guinea Savannah Ecosystem;
- Technical Opportunities and Community Challenges.
- Survey of energy use requirements and strategies for meeting the need;
- Livestock production systems, labour allocation, livestock nutrition and
marketing
- Survey of farming systems, role of tree, protected, wild, planted (sacred
groves)
- Impact of season of migrant pastoralist on rangelands browse
- Description of existing institutions their present and future development
strategies for better coordination.