Client / Financial Support:FAO, Rome
Duration:28 minutes

For many parts of rural India, livestock forms the backbone of the economy as 70% rural Indians own livestock. But in recent times curtailed access of traditional pastures and intensification of agricultural use of rural landscapes has interrupted traditional grazing routes, forcing pastoralists to make alternate decisions, sometimes even forcing them to sell their herds.

The film Keepers of Genes charts the difficult times faced by the Indian pastoralists whose animals are being restricted from accessing their traditional grazing areas.