For thousands and thousands of years,
we've been repeating the same mistake — and constantly going to new territories, degrading them, and moving on — but now we're running out of earth.
History of Holistic Management
The idea of Holistic Management began more than 40 years ago to offer land stewards a comprehensive framework for identifying specific goals; making grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively impact land health and productivity; and performing effective monitoring in ways that specifically further those goals.
Allan Savory, then a young wildlife biologist in his native Zimbabwe, wished to solve the riddle of desertification. After successive careers as a farmer, game rancher, management consultant, a member of Parliament and leader of the opposition party in the midst of a civil war, Savory concluded that the spread of deserts, the loss of wildlife, and the human impoverishment that always resulted were related to the way people made decisions, whether or not those people lived or worked on the land.
HMI was founded in 1984.