Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO of The Savory Institute, traveled to New York City earlier this month to participate in RIO +20: High Level Roundtable on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture which was formed to address the urgent need for a change in agriculture and food systems. The focus of the roundtable was “Ecologically, Socially Continue Reading...
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Allan Savory to Speak at Spring of Sustainability 2012
The Shift Network launched the Spring of Sustainability 2012: Solutions for a Thriving New World series in March 2012, offering free virtual and live workshops and interviews with world-class sustainability pioneers such as Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Hazel Henderson and many others. Our own Allan Savory will be interviewed on May 17, 2012. You can Continue Reading...
Exploring Training Hubs in Kenya and Horn of Africa
Within the next two years, more than $100 million dollars will be directed toward the Horn of Africa to fund solutions for addressing drought. The Savory Institute participated in an exciting two-day event in Kenya this month that brought together Holistic Management educators as well as local and international NGOs to talk about ways to Continue Reading...
Savory Institute Attends Nairobi 2012 International Forum
Allan Savory, president of the Savory Institute, and Constance Neeley, a Savory Institute Associate Consultant, participated in the Nairobi 2012 International Forum for the Landscapes for People, Food, and Nature Initiative. Over 140 people from 40 countries gathered at the conference to discuss the serious issue of feeding the world’s growing population. Allan conducted a Continue Reading...
Exploring New Paradigms for Rural Development with Ashoka
In mid-December 2011, Savory Institute President Allan Savory and CEO Daniela Ibarra-Howell were invited by Ashoka to join a small, inspiring gathering of thought leaders and on-the-ground entrepreneurs from around the world in Washington D.C. This group engaged in candid and focused deliberations designed to help surface and articulate new paradigms around ecosystem services, rural Continue Reading...
Holistic Management Presentation at Tufts University
Seth Itzkan, president of Planet-TECH Associates, recently spent six weeks at the Savory Institute’s sister organization, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management. In January of this year, he gave a presentation at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts’ Fletcher School titled “Reversing Global Warming and Desertification with Livestock” where he shared Continue Reading...
Reversing Desertification through Holistic Management
In a January 10 article titled “Brown Revolution Brings New Hope” IPS News reported how the Savory Institute and its partner organisation, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM), successfully used holistic management practices to reverse the effects of desertification on areas of their 2,900-hectare ranch in the Dimbangombe area of Zimbabwe – areas that Continue Reading...