Holistic Management, Third Edition: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment

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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are incessantly targeted as major culprits at the back of 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 isn’t the issue; 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 wildlife. This book updates Savory’s paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the lack of biodiversity, getting rid of fundamental causes of human impoverishment all the way through the world, and climate change. Reorganized chapters make it easier for readers to keep in mind the framework for Holistic Management and the four key insights that underlie it. New color photographs showcase before-and-after examples of land restored by livestock.

This long-anticipated new edition is written for new generations of ranchers, 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 rely on is within reach.
 

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