Announcement

Going Holistic!

 | Tuesday, October 13, 2009

USAID/EA’s Enhanced Livelihoods in the Mandera Triangle/Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas (ELMT/RELPA) activity is supporting a series of events between August and October about Holistic Management, a tool to manage rangeland through improved decision-making frameworks relating to community consensus-building including improved livestock grazing practices.  In August and September, Allan Savory and Shannon Horst of the African Centre for Holistic Management and Savory Institute International were in Kenya to (1) work with range managers on ranches and community group ranches (Laikipia and Samburu Districts), demonstrating managing holistically in communal and private rangelands, and (2) spend time in the Nairobi area speaking on “Managing Holistically: Healthy Lands, Healthy Livelihoods, making the point that planned grazing can  regenerate rangelands in East Africa.  Using Holistic Management, the Savory Institute has documented many compelling cases throughout the world where arid, unproductive land has been regenerated into productive land that retains water and restores livelihoods on communal and private rangelands.  A Field Day was held at the Olerai Conservancy, and Keekenyoike Livestock Field School, Kajiado.  Some 40 people attended a lecture at a local hotel.  Additional workshops are planned in October 2009.