In most places, people have been plowing their fields for many generations, and the nutrients in the soil get less and less, and that's why some fields become infertile... so to bring back the fertility, we are now using the tool of animals.

—Elias Ncube, Program Officer
Africa Center for Holistic Management

We are now using animals as our tools to improve fertility... we get a lot of manure, urine, which is ammonium nitrate. (We move our livestock after) they break the soil, and at the end of the day, you get a lot from that. You heal the land, and it becomes better and better — then you can get something out of it.

—Melusi Mpisi Ndlovu,
Ko Mpisi, Zimbabwe

What is Holistic Management International?

HMI is an Albuquerque-based, international nonprofit organization that provides training, courses and consulting services to stewards of large landscapes, including ranchers, farmers, pastoral communities, government agencies, NGOs, environmental advocacy groups and other non-profits.

HMI’s proven holistic practices yield a “triple bottom line” of sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits by:

• Improving soil health and biodiversity of rangelands and pastures.
• Increasing grazing and wildlife capacity.
• Increasing annual profits and enhancing livelihoods.
• Optimally using rainfall and conserving water.
• Growing healthier crops and achieving higher yields.
• Reversing desertification in brittle environments.
• Breaking the cycle of food and water insecurity.
• Enhancing family relationships.
• Resisting and positively affecting global climate change.

HMI also trains Certified Educators to educate others about Holistic Management, which replaces fragmentary decision-making and short-term solutions with a system that encompasses a whole, long-term process of restoring damaged land and managing healthy land.

30 million acres of land worldwide currently benefit from Holistic Management practices.