It also became clear at the workshop that agricultural development and land policies sometimes appear to fail because of the lack of popular comprehension or cooperation. Such problems can be reduced by the adequate involvement of the population in the early stages of policy formulation. This may also help alleviate the lack of resources and personnel which, it was concluded, are often responsible for the poor implementation of land policy. For example, registration of titles in tribal land has been almost impossible to achieve even though its importance is usually recognized. Similar problems undoubtedly exist in other countries in the region.
Governments are involved to some extent in every aspect of land tenure and use.
Governments have a major responsibility in areas of communal tenure, particularly as they begin to substitute modern land institutions for the traditional administration of chiefs and other community authorities. The role of governments in State land is even more direct. Another important way in which land policy should be integrated, therefore, is across the different forms of tenure existing in a country. Only in this way can the danger of conflict between developments in the different tenure zones be averted and the option of controlling land allocation between zones be effectively used. The land policy of governments must therefore consider and provide for all types of tenure within one integrated whole.