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The Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival seeks to deepen understanding of how diverse peoples across the world gain their livelihoods from extensive livestock production.

The relationships of pastoralist people and animals and their food production systems reflect an intimate intertwining of culture, economy and ecology in highly variable environments such as drylands and mountainous regions. In such environments, mobility of animals plays a key role.

Films of multiple genres – spanning documentary, narrative and experimental – made by pastoralists and/or about and with pastoralists offer different insights into issues important to them.

“Perspectives on pastoralism” is a contribution to the preparations for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists in 2026 (http://www.iyrp.info).