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Allan Savory — Wikipedia (en)

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Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935) is a Zimbabwean ecologist and former soldier, farmer, rancher, and Rhodesian politician. He is the President Emeritus and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources, and the origin story his professional life's work is told in the memoir UnSavory: African Stories of Wildlife, War and the Birth of Holistic Management. Savory advocates that management at all levels, from individual to household or community to governance, should be "holistic," a term coined by J.C. Smuts in his book Holism and Evolution. This central concept of Holistic Management is most practically applied in Savory's planning procedure for land and livestock management (Holistic Planned Grazing), which allows farmers, ranchers, or pastoralists to bunch and move livestock—when contextually appropriate—in an effort to honor the co-evolved relationships between grassland and herbivores, and as a means to restore degraded landscapes. Savory has stated "only livestock can reverse desertification. There is no other known tool available to humans with which to address desertification that is contributing not only to climate change but also to much of the poverty, emigration, violence, etc. in the seriously affected regions of the world." "Only livestock can save us." He believes grasslands hold the potential to sequester enough atmospheric carbon dioxide to reverse climate change. Praised by cattle farmers, his ideas have sparked opposition from some academics; ranging from debate on evidence for treatment effects to the scope of the potential impact for carbon sequestration. Savory received the 2003 Banksia International Award and won the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Prince Charles called him "a remarkable man" and noted farmer Joel Salatin wrote, "History will vindicate Allan Savory as one of the greatest ecologists of all time." In contrast, James E. McWilliams described Savory as having "adherence to scientifically questionable conclusions in the face of evidence to the contrary". George Monbiot said of him, "his statements are not supported by empirical evidence and experimental work, and that in crucial respects his techniques do more harm than good." However, this comment has been subject to criticism in a later article published in The Guardian by Hunter Lovins, titled "Why George Monbiot is wrong: grazing livestock can save the world".

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