Pastoralist Knowledge Hub

13/12/2024

This video features Babacar Ndaw, farmer, breeder and President of a local “Pastoralist Unit” in central Senegal. He is responsible for the peaceful coexistence of breeders and farmers around his village. Since the start of the PRAPS project implemented in 6 Sahelian countries to preserve pastoralism, breeders have a better access to water, feed and vaccines for their livestock and to markets.

15/10/2025

Pastoralists hold the keys to a sustainable future for Africa’s drylands. But that future depends on how governments, businesses, and others engage with pastoralism. This documentary follows five stories of pastoralists driving positive change in Africa’s drylands – from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan – and sets out how outsiders can support and strengthen what is already happening.

01/01/2009

This film shows the role of pastoralists in conserving biodiversity and visually transports policymakers into the situation of pastoralists.

01/03/2009

This film is made by Maasai pastoralists, living near Oltepesi in Kenya, in March 2009. It documents the devastating impacts of a seemingly endless drought across the region that killed...

10/06/2011

In this video Maasai elders in Kenya recall the devastation they have seen caused by rinderpest, or cattle plague. For millennia, the virus was a threat to animal health and...

01/05/2012

Pastoralists and other indigenous livestock keepers have created breeds that are a crucial asset to humanity in adapting to climate change, conserving biological diversity and sustaining food production in harsh...

28/05/2013

See how members of arbale pastoral field school in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of...

13/11/2013

The real measure of success in the work that FAO does, is how effectively they help the most needy to live free of hunger, in better health and with stronger...

01/01/2014

This film shows views of pastoralists' representatives on pastoralism as a sustainable form of livelihood. They expressed their views during the Global Pastoralists' Gathering held in Kiserian Kenya from 9th...

20/11/2014

This video shows some of the main challenges of the Raikas, a semi nomadic community in Rajasthan, India and how ICARDA responds to them. Change of land use, climate change...

22/12/2015

الرحل في حلهم وترحالهم يتحركون عادة إلى مسافات بعيدة وراء الماء والكلأ بسبب النقص الفصلي في المياه وبسبب نمط حياتهم وثقافتهم. وقد تزيد المسافات التي يقطعونها عن مائتي كيلومتر.وتقام دمرهم...

13/05/2016

The goal of this film is to provide an overview of herders’ traditional ecological knowledge. The herders interviewed are traditional herders who possess a rich knowledge mostly inherited from the...

28/07/2016

This video prepared by the Green Gold project is about the rangeland use agreement between herders and the local government in Mongolia. 

08/08/2016

Meet Hajekber Serikbol, a pastoralist community leader in the Western Foothills of Mongolia. They call themselves the "friendship community" and are part of 200-500 million nomadic custodians that take care of...