To Which We Belong (2021)
To Which We Belong’ is a documentary that highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable. These unsung heroes are improving the health of our soil and sea to save their livelihoods — and our planet.
Rangeland Management for Improved Pastoralist Livelihoods: The Borana of Southern Ethiopia
This dissertation asks what can be done to revitalise degraded rangelands, and suggests that Holistic Management can help practitioners and pastoralists re-apply indigenous knowledge and skills under modern conditions to re-establish a dynamism important to rangeland health.
Desertification and livestock grazing: The roles of sedentarization, mobility and rest
This paper suggests that livestock may be a solution to the problem of land degradation in arid and semiarid rangeland ecosystems. It investigates the history of desertification around the world and finds that of the many contributing factors, the singular commonality was the “prevalence of partial or total rest.”
Livestock Rejuvenates Ecosystem
Elias Ncube, an accredited Holistic Management educator at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe, offers his perspective on how Holistic Planned Grazing is helping local smallholder farmers.
Grassroots Restoration: Holistic Management for Villages
This 90-page introductory manual is geared towards those managing livestock in a pastoral setting with communal land ownership.