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Allan Savory Profiled in Farmer’s Weekly

Allan Savory with his wife and collaborator Jody Butterfield. Photo courtesy Farmer’s Weekly. Allan Savory is profiled in the 4 May 2012 issue of Farmer’s Weekly magazine. Written by Heather Dugmore, “Large herds on the move revitalise degraded veld” describes the principles of putting holistic management into practice as Allan recently demonstrated at a workshop in Continue Reading...

Case Studies

Africa Centre for Holistic Management - This case study shows how land, water, and biological resources can be healed through properly managed livestock. Download .pdfs here: Overview Full study...

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...

Before and After – Holistic Management Benefits

After over 40 years of practice, there are successful holistic management practitioners spread across the globe, from Canada to the tip of Patagonia, and from Zimbabwe to Australia to Scandinavia. Where managers were once frustrated by their situation, blaming the government, weather or markets for their predicament and the land’s degradation, they now have hope Continue Reading...

Papers by Allan Savory

 A Brief Overview of Holistic Management and Holistic Decision Making (2011) Allan Savory The Buckminster Fuller Award and the Afghanistan War (2010) Allan Savory A Global Strategy for Addressing Climate Change, by Allan Savory (2008) Holistic resource management: a conceptual framework for ecologically sound economic modelling, by Allan Savory, in Ecological Economics  Good Governance, by Continue Reading...