Client / Financial Support: LPP, LPPS
Duration: 18 minutes

There was a time when pastoral life was viable and at times even lucrative as a livelihood option. But times have changed now. Most of the traditional grazing areas have now been either taken over for agriculture or converted into protected areas. There is no support from the government and the plight of these people is further compounded by the fact that most people perceive pastoralists as primitive, still living in the past. Throughout the world, many of the breeds kept by traditional people have been disappearing. About 30% of the world’s breeds are threatened by extinction.

In February, 2007, LPPS organised a meeting of livestock keepers and policy makers from different parts of India and the world to discuss what kind of rights and support pastoralists need to continue keeping animals and thereby conserve breeds, and the environment. 

After much discussion, the groups reached a consensus on the definition of “Livestock Keepers rights”:

The film narrates the journey of a small group of people from the Raika community of Rajasthan to Europe to participate in various discourses on Livestock Keepers’ Rights in the international forum.