If that’s got you interested we’ll worth reading his book. Or a guy called Gabe Brown released one recently or Greg Judy who I saw speak last year at Groundswell.
he has been labelled a quack by some who don't understand what he is doing. I think he was deported from Australia once too. A lot of the anti savoury institute stuff focuses on his failures when he was still learning about grazing and what holistic planned grazing was. And there is a lot of mentioning of his elephant cull too which he freely admits was a massive mistake. But his movmment is slowly gaining momentum and support. 
Or, as it was put to me in college, 'If you don't spend it, you don't have to earn it'.
That's marvellous. In the short question and answer session after his talk, he claimed that no matter how little vegetation there was on a particular grazing site, significantly increasing the numbers of animals did not cause any problems and it more or less turned what was a desert into productive grassland or herbage.
There are more videos online of him, or someone else from the savoury institute, explaining how it works in more detail and how the local people take to it being done.
Thanks for that. He did refer to it in the video I commented on.There are more videos online of him, or someone else from the savoury institute, explaining how it works in more detail and how the local people take to it being done.
I saw a great video a while ago about a village that was being helped by them. The village already had the cattle all owned by people who lived there. They just had someone come and manage them, or show them how to manage them, in this way and the results were dramatic as shown in this video. Another thing they did in that video was the cattle were all bought into one small paddock overnight so they could concentrate all the muck and urine in one place. After a while of all this extra fertility the paddock became a garden for the village and they were able to grow enough food there to feed everyone and have some to sell as well. It was great to see much better than anything Oxfam or the likes would do. @Sheila Cooke might know of this video or something similar? I don't know if I could find it again
Whilst you're quite right about the desertification bit not being particularly relevant in our climate, soils with increased carbon content have massively increased water absorption capabilities. (Gabe puts some figures to it somewhere in his book) In a dry climate this keeps moisture available for growing in a dry time (that would be beneficial even here in a summer like last) but also it means the soils hold many times more water in flood conditions, reducing runoff and therefore alleviating the issue of flooding we seem to get more trouble with in recent years. Also reduces soil erosion of course. It's win win in every climate it seems to me.Quite a famous video that one I think. Well worth watching and it's a shame that it's not more widely watched by people who aren't already interested in livestock and holistic grazing that he promotes. There's plenty of anti Allan Savoury stuff about too but a lot of it comes across as vegans hating
He really doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He has done more for areas of Africa than any western world charity has done or ever will by helping them to help themselves through the management of their livestock and land. And is doing more for climate change than most if not all scientists as well. They just seem to be fiddling with numbers for sponsorship not actually doing something about it
The bit about desertification isn't really relevant to the UK as much as it is other parts of the world except maybe the south east of England @holwellcourtfarm ?
But we can pump a lot of carbon into our soils and increase the organic matter in them to keep our soils healthy and grow more grass cheaper than you would with fertilizer all while helping the environment by sequestering carbon. Even if your not convinced by or don't particularly care about climate change growing more grass in healthy soil sounds good to me
It may not look "desertified", due to rain.
There are more videos online of him, or someone else from the savoury institute, explaining how it works in more detail and how the local people take to it being done.
I saw a great video a while ago about a village that was being helped by them. The village already had the cattle all owned by people who lived there. They just had someone come and manage them, or show them how to manage them, in this way and the results were dramatic as shown in this video. Another thing they did in that video was the cattle were all bought into one small paddock overnight so they could concentrate all the muck and urine in one place. After a while of all this extra fertility the paddock became a garden for the village and they were able to grow enough food there to feed everyone and have some to sell as well. It was great to see much better than anything Oxfam or the likes would do. @Sheila Cooke might know of this video or something similar? I don't know if I could find it again
I agree. But we all have to start somewhere , sometime , on this journey.. Some are starting earlier and hopefully making it easier for those who follow, so they can ( perhaps) avoid the more harmful mistakes. I know what you mean about the farmers whose grazing methods are lousy, on the other hand , at least their livestock are outside unlike around here where it was once common but now most dairy farms are total confinement. Not much carbon sequestration happening there.
I'm sure @Clive or someone could put it on the tff FB page
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