Holistic Management is based on a decision making framework which results in ecologically regenerative, economically viable and socially sound management of the world’s grasslands.
It was first developed over 40 years ago by Allan Savory, a Zimbabwean biologist, game ranger, politician, farmer, and rancher, who was searching for ways to save the beautiful savannah and its wildlife in southern Africa.
How It Works
Holistic Management teaches people about the relationship between large herds of wild herbivores and the grasslands and then helps people develop strategies for managing herds of domestic livestock to mimic those wild herds to heal the land.
Principles of Holistic Management
Holistic Management is based on four key principles that highlight the symbiotic relationship between large herds of grazing animals, their predators and the grasslands.
Benefits
Holistic Management embraces and honors the complexity of nature, and uses nature’s models to bring practical approaches to land management, and restoration. The planning procedures embedded in the Holistic Management approach are designed to incorporate this complexity and work with it.It does take time, skills and discipline to use this decision-making framework successfully – but the economic, environmental and social benefits are enormous.
Untapped Potential
Using Holistic Management practices, governments and development agencies can design and analyze policies and programs using the holistic framework, so they address the root cause of the problems they are trying to solve or prevent.