Who is Allan Savory?

Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean rangeland ecologist and pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement. In the 1960s, he began developing Holistic Management (HM), a new method for managing complex living systems, with a focus on land and livestock, and regenerating pasturelands and other habitat.

He initially developed HM to halt the spread of desertification. Livestock had long been blamed for creating deserts, but Savory realized it was how the livestock were managed that was the problem, and devised methods to cooperate with nature, rather than try to control it.