Major infrastructure investment helps pastoralists and locals share limited resources in the Sahel
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.
Charting new futures in Africa’s drylands | SPARC documentary
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.
Keepers of genes - India's pastoralists and their breeds
01/01/2009
This film shows the role of pastoralists in conserving biodiversity and visually transports policymakers into the situation of pastoralists.
Eng'eno Eishoi Ng'ejuk
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...
Kenya's Maasai remember rinderpest
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...
Recognising customary rights
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...
'Schools without walls' - (Agro)pastoralist field schools in the Horn of Africa
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...
Our livestock are our mother - Doing community One Health in Kaabong, Uganda
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...
Pastoralism & sustainable livelihoods
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...
A livelihood on the move - Surviving on marginal lands
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...
جمال الطبيعه في بادية السودان
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...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (IKL) of Hungarian Herders (Magyar Pásztorok Ökológiai Tudása)
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...
Rangeland use agreement by herders
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.
A common right: 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...