The question of commonly owned resources such as wood lots and the manner of apportioning the resources among the farmers in a community has a lot that remains to be said. Present arrangements can't fulfill the needs of all community members and therefore leave everyone dissatisfied. The activities of NGOs in natural resources conservation could do with better coordination. In these connections Regions fail to articulate exactly their priority areas to NGOs resulting in a situation in which different NGOs set different agendas. Farmers' awareness of the extent and seriousness of the problems of land degradation lags far behind the magnitude of the actual problem.
Some government organizations seem to work at cross-purposes.
Rural Roads people do all they can to direct all the water right back into them from their bridges. Water reservoirs, such as dams, are silting up fast. At the same time new ones are being constructed without taking the necessary precautions. Catchment conservation is only an afterthought in most dam work. In future we hope to see that public discourses such as workshops are taken seriously.