1. Happy strategies game
Dryland landscape

2. Rainfall 700 mm/yr High average temperature
Evapotranspiration (PET): 1600
Poorly distributed and with high inter seasonal variability

3. Elevation

4. Slope Gently sloping, some areas totally flat
More steep areas around the banks of seasonal streams

5. Soils

6. Land use

7. Water access and market access
Water scarcity
Few villages have piped system
Piped water too expensive for many
Many people rely on water fetched from holes in dry riverbeds
Women have to walk many hours to get water for household consumption

8. Socio-economic setting
Mostly agro-pastoralist communities except than in bigger villages
Man move with the animals to summer pastures
Increasing population (also livestock)
Women and elders stay home the whole year
Crops grown are mainly Sorghum, many other crops could be grown if water is available.
Chat is being grown if water is available
Few Jatropha (for diesel production) commercial plantations

9. Landscape challenges (livestock)
Prosopis and Opuntia are invading the natural pastures
Prosopis beans are eaten by goats and spread with their dung
The area around the few water points for livestock are highly degraded because high livestock density
Overgrazing soil erosion
Low livestock productivity because of diseases, low quality of feed and not enough water

10. Landscape challenges (agriculture)
Short growing season for low water availability
Low rains and High evapotranspiration
Low use of organic and artificial fertilizers
Growing crops must be guarded from livestock
Decreasing number of trees for shade, timber and fuel

11. Social setting Agro-pastoralist and pastoralist communities
Tension between groups for pasture lands and livestock water sources
Government push for settlement of pastoralists
Some fields are surrounded by barbed wire that impede the traditional practice of free movement of livestock
Extension service focused on agriculture and not much on pastoralist way of life
People not used to invest many resources and time in improving land because of pastoralist attitude