Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification.
It offers new hope that a sustainable future for humankind and the world we depend on is within reach..
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.
New color photographs showcase before-and-after examples of land restored by livestock.
Reorganized chapters make it easier for readers to understand the framework for Holistic Management and the four key insights that underlie it.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Livestock grazing is not the problem; it\'s how we graze livestock.
The bigger problem, he warns, is our misManagement of resources.
But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ.
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification
