Holistic Management is the result of more than 25 years of work by incredibly hard-working, resilient and self-sustaining people from around the globe.

 

The original non-profit originally dedicated to promoting the understanding of the interplay of large grazing herbivores, their pack hunting predators, and the grasslands that co-evolved with them was the result of Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, with support of countless others.

 

This non-profit has seen many iterations over the years, most currently with Holistic Management International and its current focus on bringing a few of the principles ‘mainstream’.

 

Allan and Jody and other former HMI team members manage a separate enterprise, the Savory Institute.

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While Holistic Management’s roots are in the savannahs of Africa and ‘the movement’ has always worked to reverse desertification and the negative impact of not understanding the grassland-grazing animal relationship, the real need is to work to change our paradigm about how the world functions as a whole, and take these lessons to small business, policy design, land planning, monitoring, family life, financial planning, and a host of other applications.

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For an inspirational introduction to the ideas around which this blog is dedicated, watch Allan Savory’s 2103 Ted Talk.

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