Holistic Management Handbook: Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits

by Jody Butterfield, Sam Bingham, Allan Savory

Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach developed by biologist Allan Savory to restore the world’s grassland soils and minimize the damaging effects of climate change and desertification on humans and the natural world. This third edition of Holistic Management Handbook: Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits is the long-awaited companion volume to the classic text Holistic Management, Third Edition. Crafted under the direction of Savory’s longtime collaborator Jody Butterfield, this handbook is the key to developing a comprehensive holistic land plan based on Savory’s principles that will help you to restore health to your land and ensure a stable, sustainable livelihood from its bounty.



This new edition, thoroughly revised, updated, and streamlined, explains the planning procedures described in Holistic Management, and offers step-by-step instructions for running a ranch or farm using a holistic management approach. Butterfield and her coauthors describe how to use the handbook in conjunction with the textbook to tailor a management plan for your unique combination of land, livestock, and finances. Their mantra is “plan, monitor, control, and replan.” Using a four-part approach, the authors walk readers through basic concepts and techniques, help them put a plan onto paper, monitor the results, and adjust the details as needed. Appendixes provide updated worksheets, checklists, planning and monitoring forms, and detailed examples of typical scenarios a user might encounter. The handbook includes a comprehensive glossary of terms.



Ranchers, farmers, pastoralists, social entrepreneurs, government agencies, and NGOs working to address global environmental degradation will find this comprehensive handbook an indispensable guide to putting the holistic management concept into action with tangible results they can take to the bank.

 

Genres: Agriculture, Nonfiction, Environment, Business

418 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Sheldon Frith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the ONE AND ONLY book describing the most powerful grazing planning system on the planet, Holistic Planned Grazing, in full detail and is a MUST READ for serious grazing managers in my opinion. It also includes the very valuable financial planning and land planning methods of Allan Savory...

[Katherine Stevick · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of profound, brilliant info. It needed a better editor, I think--it is long, sometimes a little repetitive, and the particular (Audible) audiobook recording that I listened to was terribly recorded. But the insights into a) animal impact on desertifying lands, brittle vs non-brittle, and b) the holistic management framework are particularly useful.