VSF is happy to announce that through CELEP, we will be hosting our Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival during the first-ever digital conference focused on restoring Africa’s drylands, organised by the Global Landscapes Forum. This event takes places just before the official launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which runs from 2021 to 2030 https://veterinairessansfrontieres.be/actualites/festival-du-film-perspectives-on-pastoralism-online-edition/

 
The film festival will consist out of 4 sessions, where during each session on average 25 minutes of film will be shown, followed by a short 5-minute talk by one of our CELEP speakers and a 15-min Q&A round with the public (fully in English). The agenda is as follows (below hours are in Brussels time zone GMT+2, online the hours are in Nairobi time zone GMT+3):

• Session 1: Mining threats in pastoralist areas (2 June, 07:30 - 8:15) – KDF film (VSFB partner)
• Session 2: Pastoralist livelihoods in Africa (2 June, 19:15 - 20:00) – a VSFB film from 2012 in Niger will be shown
• Session 3: Speaking truth to power: pastoralists’ advocacy (3 June, 12:00 - 12:45) – no direct link with VSFB, but indirect in the past through land rights in Tanzania
• Session 4: Global recognition of pastoralism and its future (3 June, 18:30 - 19:30) – Loupa Pius, a VSFB partner from Uganda will be speaking
• Find the full conference agenda here: https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/africa-2021/digital-agenda/

African residents have free access to the event.

Please invite your friends and wider network to this event, using the promotion materials you will be seeing during the next days on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. So please like, share and retweet.
Watch the film festival trailer below, developed by Patrick Augenstein (a filmmaker with whom we have been collaborating often recently, and we hope to continue doing so).

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