Allan Savory | Regreening the Planet with Livestock

Allan Savory | Regreening the Planet with Livestock | 023

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023: Can grazing livestock heal the planet by sequestering carbon and reversing desertification through managed movements that mimic nature? Are livestock even more effective than using controlled burns to prevent wildfires? Allan Savory believes so, and his arguments and outcomes are convincing.
Allan Savory is the founder of Holistic Management International, a systems-based decision making process that aims to heal ecosystems, using livestock to reverse desertification in brittle environments through natural grazing methods when applicable. His TED Talk on the subject has been viewed close to 8 million times. He is the co-founder of the Savory Institute, an organization aiming to regenerate large areas of grasslands around the world through Holistic Management.
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@Birdvet101 3 ай бұрын

I have stopped corn and soy crops on my organic farm in Ne and planted cover crops and grazing 80 head of cattle for 3-5 years. Love your input and support.

@Gustav4 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for helping to spreading the word. Was just watching a documentary about the dangerous low levels in the Colorado river which has declined slowly ever since they build the dam, and the only reason is because we have not known what Savory here is saying. The land degrade which reduce water feeding to the river and also reduce the amount rain in the area.

@leelindsay5618 Жыл бұрын

Folks are aware that greening cities cools the city by several degrees. Now all we need are city grazing operations to further improve.

@robertling9872 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this intresting conversation.

@drsprof6295 11 ай бұрын

Pity that Alan has made it more and more complex. It was about fighting desertification and he found a method to do it cheaply and effectively, although not easy to introduce on common 'grazing lands'. So the real basic was to stimulate seed germination and vegetation growth on pastures, bushland and even on arable land. With as tools: hove impact (to disturb the soil) and controlled grazing (to avoid overgrazing of the most palatable plant species) by grazing animals (cows actually). Urine and cow dung as a additional positive factor. He came with "holistic" because the whole landscape and wildlife, and communities were taken into account. BUT now he comes with a complete 'worldview' including 'wars', migration, poverty, institutions, technology for tools, etc. OK, desertification is indeed strongly linked to a changing climate in those areas - and maybe worldwide(?). Maybe even more than that of CO2 in the atmosphere. Still, I learned a lot from Alan, thank you for that.

@spinachtriangle 11 ай бұрын

See his debate with George Monbiot, absolute car crash. I fond Allan very disingenuous and a bit up himself. Also he repeats the same rubbish in most of his talks. Also he has not addressed the proven fraud about his pictures or his foundation's involvement in carbon fraud.

@floridanaturalfarming3367 2 жыл бұрын

Agree, Thank you!

@millerbotanicals6128 Жыл бұрын

This is so great. I have lived on the land all my life. As a homesteader, I blamed the ranchers. Then I looked back at the humans side of the mountain. What a mess. It makes sence that we reduce the number of heads of cattle instead of increase them more densely and move them more. Thank You.

@JohannesOBorge 2 жыл бұрын

Great discussion. Savory`s holistic view is very similar to Cabreras "System Thinking" in order to solve the worlds "wicked problems". Read his book "Flock not clock", great insight. So happy to see the regenerative movement gaining momentum!

@kristijantadic8476 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@kangerol 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@rowancreates 2 жыл бұрын

At 22:29 Allan says it would be to an advantage in some countries to utilize oil instead of wood or cotton. My question - would it be to an even greater advantage to use hemp rather than oil since hemp provides the oil, the fiber, and it sequesters carbon in the process rather than releasing it like oil would?

@marynielsen9214 10 ай бұрын

So we have the answer. Let’s do it. I am trying on my little bit of land. Even looking for a memosa tree here I. CT for the nitrogen.

@pedrothewise2584 11 ай бұрын

intensive dairy in wales.masses of nitrates poured over grassland to speed growth for grazing and silage production can never be good.poisoned fish from dairy farm slurry is common.

@andrewtrip8617 11 ай бұрын

How does that relate to this video ?

@pedrothewise2584 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewtrip8617 by noting that current intensive grassland management in europe isnt the same as the south african bush.

@philipgebert479 2 жыл бұрын

This proposed solution must be implemented by governments world wide.

@nationofibrahim1302 Жыл бұрын

Can I have permission to upload on Facebook this video?

@rinaldomallyamov6308 Жыл бұрын

Интересно

@coachcal4876 2 жыл бұрын

Do we know when the his next book will be out?

@sonja5215 11 ай бұрын

it's so obvious that Savory didn't think his concept through. this would never work large scale, and it would create way more problems than it would solve.

@andrewtrip8617 11 ай бұрын

He clearly states that it is site and size specific .you were not listening before commenting .

@billiebruv 11 ай бұрын

You need to provide the points as too how it wouldn't work

@TomasPböckerlyftningschack 11 ай бұрын

You miss his message, i.e. the methods depend on your context while the holistic planning process can always be applied. He has said many times that the only time his method failed was when people after he left stopped go through the planning process and just copied the procedures for a couple of years. The specific methods savory is using (grazing animals etc.) is useful in semidry warm areas. That is not bad, semidry warm area is something like 7 million square kilometers worldwide, pretty much all the traditional prairie, pampas, pusta or steppe, depending on your location..

@goldenblood9137 10 ай бұрын

So esoteric, what is Allans holistic approach ? He's so confusing, in india there's no culling allowed of any animals

@audreysuter4315 Жыл бұрын

Al Gore is merely a stooge of the WEF, his predictions and hysteria at Davos recently are so far from the truth and reality, it's simply ludicrous. Allan Savory has LIVED the solution he preaches. Great respect for Allan Savory!

@marlan5470 2 жыл бұрын

Why is Al Gore mentioned here? good grief.

@debrabraz6258 2 жыл бұрын

Really. He's a problem not part of any solution.

@Wbharrington 2 жыл бұрын

Because he mentioned government collapsed and everything worked fine without it. He had to get back to govt is the solution.

@wendyscott8425 2 жыл бұрын

What's so bad about Al Gore? He had a lot to do with making people aware of global warming before it became so obvious with all the extreme weather happening all over the world.

@graemeozzie2251 Жыл бұрын

@@wendyscott8425 Savory is a failed politician. That should tell you enough. He seems to have an inability to respect others who are trying to solve the same problems he is. He's got some good insights but is hopeless at politics. Rather than seeing Al Gore, Greta, and just about everyone else as allies, he burns bridges with backhanded compliments because they fail his "purity test". He mines a cultural goodwill that tends to exist between farmers and the rest of society (wedging the undeniable importance of agriculture and many people todays disconnection from it due to urbanisation and romanticism) It's very sad to see Alan being carted around the world doing more damage than good IMO. Unfortunately many in the regenerative ag movement are in denial and have don't spot the emperor without clothes. It's not that his ideas are "bad" it's just he mixes in a lot of lofty word salad and motherhood statements of the bleeding obvious and as I explained, burns bridges and wedges environmental issues.

@wendyscott8425 Жыл бұрын

@@graemeozzie2251 Um, sure, if you say so.