Saddest and greatest blunder of my life

 

 Desertification of the world's grasslands, Savory suggests, is the immediate cause of poverty, social breakdown, violence, cultural genocide -- and a significant contribution to climate change.

Allan Redin Savory a Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile, environmentalist.

 In 1992, Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2010, the Centre won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge for its work in reversing desertification. In that same year he and his wife, with others, founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to promote large-scale restoration of the world's grasslands. Visit What Is Holistic Management? to learn more...

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