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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment Paperback – Illustrated, 1 January 2017

by Allan Savory (Author), Jody Butterfield (Author)

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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem, it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels with environmentally benign energy sources. Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach for managing resources developed by Savory decades ago after observing the devastation of desertification in his native Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Properly managed livestock are key to restoring the world's grassland soils, the major sink for atmospheric carbon, and minimizing the most damaging impacts on humans and the natural world.This book updates Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes 'of' human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. Reorganised chapters make it easier for readers to understand the framework for Holistic Management and the four key insights that underlie it. New colour photographs Showcase before-and-after examples of land restored by livestock. This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of farmers, eco- and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation. It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach.

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ASIN : 161091743X
Language : English
Paperback : 500 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781610917438
ISBN-13 : 978-1610917438

Best Sellers Rank: 39,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 65 in Environmentalism
- 77 in Environmental Economics
- 93 in Agricultural Science

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"[This book] should be on your bookshelf and read and reread until every aspect of this concept is like taking a breath of air--automatic. You will profit, your land will profit, and the world in general will profit."-- "Small Farm Today"

"Exceptionally well written, impressively informed and informative, thoroughly 'reader-friendly' in organization and presentation, Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment will prove to be a practical and invaluable informational resource for ranchers, farmers, eco-and social entrepreneurs, and development professionals working to address global environmental and social degradation."-- "Midwest Book Review"

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Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, is a former wildlife biologist and farmer who conceived of and developed the Holistic Management approach to landscape management. Jody Butterfield is cofounder of the Savory Institute and a former journalist specialising in agriculture and the environment.

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The Ultimate Manual for the Ultimate Solutions to the Greatest Ills We All Face!

31 January 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This new edition of Allan Savory's original masterpiece has been 30 years in the making. No one, but no one offers a more in-depth and solution-oriented view to our planetary plague of desertification and soil degradation than Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield. This is a "MUST READ AND HEED" manual for not only restoring the health of our beleaguered environment, but for saving our own species from itself. The antithesis of reductionist thinking, Savory supplies fully supported science and widespread evidence for a fully practical, systematic and actionable (and surprisingly simple) means of restoring vital natural systems and literally reversing decades of environmental destruction, worldwide. We have the technology to implement all of this literally TODAY. It is the ultimate environmental manifesto offering literally "grassroots" empowerment toward a future where there can be abundant nourishment for millions in alignment with our human evolutionary and genetic heritage, while also saving the environment. Holistic Management also realistically promises the abundant and healthy restoration of otherwise dwindling water sheds, ecosystem diversity, richly restored soil and plant life in ways that can help restore political and social stability in otherwise impoverished regions. What is needed is the widespread grass roots will to make it happen...and this book supplies the ultimate inspiration and How To! I cannot recommend this book urgently enough!

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Svetlana Romanov

Most important agicultural book you will ever read

7 October 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is the most relevant text on agriculture in our life time. Allan Savory explains the hidden causes of desertification and explains how to reverse these causes, not through expensive inputs, but through a shift in the management of livestock. Global warming is not simply due to burning fossil fuels; it is largely due the world's grasslands turning into desert, which in turn is due to the mismanagement, or total absence, of the ruminating herbivores which with grasses co-evolved. Allan Savory has unlocked the secret to managing ruminants in a way that mimics the ancient herds that once roamed North America. If you are a rancher in an environment that is not humid year-round, the principles of this book could save your business and make it thrive.

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like elephants, elk

2 April 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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There is hidden treasure in this book. If you are someone who wants human life to continue on planet earth, who loves the diversity of many forms of larger life, like elephants, elk, eagles, squid, salmon, redwoods, chimps, grasslands, strawberries, horses, kitties and kale and the many forms of microscopic, tiny and small life forms they (and we) feed and depend upon; to continue to populate our sphere in the heavens. If you like to eat or still believe it might be possible for humans to thrive in harmony with nature and each other - There is treasure in this book.

Allan Savory may be the simple man he claims to be but driven by his love of wildlife and an unwavering commitment to its survival far into the future, and possessing a mind that probes, and questions again, he gets to the bottom of things. He has the courage to follow and tell the truth about what he has discovered even when the search reveals discoveries that turn the course of his life. He and Jody Butterfield have once again come forth with a book, updated, streamlined, sharing the insights that form a foundation for sound decision-making. Decision making that will allow all humans, who want life to thrive, to take the practical actions necessary to accomplish that mission.

You can start from where you are. If you want to create a peaceful, prosperous, healthy, thriving whole of a self, a family, a business, an organization, community or whole of humanity and have not read this book the time to get started is now. If you farm, ranch, manage land, advocate for the environment, live in a city or town, vote, parent, manage a business, create policy, teach children and you have not read and understood what Savory presents in clear understandable language, you as a caring person, activist, expert, enthusiast may inadvertently be doing more harm than good. Don’t take my word for it, you can look yourself at what Allan has discovered and articulated about humans in relationship with the forces of nature.

Try his insights on for size, test and test again his ideas and perceptions. Give your mind, heart, imagination, observation skills, critical thinking, permission to play with his observations and insights as you look at your own life and the world around you. I’ve been doing it for over 20 years. Because nature is the amazing and complex way it is, the life-enhancing possibilities only get richer.

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Really good start to a great series

Principles to solve modern problems in systematic way thats in harmony with nature

22 August 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Allon Savory is a Sage of our time. Just like Jane Jacobs was a Prophetess of modern urban renewal, Savory shows us a systems of rules to renew vast lands that are going barren or turning into desserts. All his rules together he packages under the system he calls Holistic Management.

The authority with which he writes come from the fact that his system of ideas were formulated in Zimbabwe under incredibly hostile and desperate conditions, where politics, mass starvation, and civil war all worked to wreck huge devastations. But its in this furnace Savory develops these system of ideas that can help us use what we already have at our disposal to tackle these very problems in a Holistic manner that can heal our communities, land, and the whole of our Ecology.

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