The Shambyu and Gciriku traditional authorities have allocated a large number of individual farms to local farmers on the land to the west of the Khaudum National Park in Kavango Region. The Ministry of Lands and Resettlement (MLR) has incorporated these farms into a scheme to allocate pieces of communal land under leasehold to individual farmers for small-scale commercial livestock farming. There are, however, a number of constraints to commercial livestock farming in this area which raise questions about the viability of the small scale commercial farming scheme.