Land to Market Conference 29-31 March 2021, Albury NSW
Allan Savory, Savory Institute
Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa, pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world's grassland ecosystems and worked with managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.
In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, and in 2009, with a group of colleagues, they co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado, building up a network of innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with Holistic Management training and implementation support.
Savory's book, Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment (Island Press, 2016), describes efforts to find workable solutions to overcoming many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today. In 2003, he received Australia's International Banksia Award, in 2010 Savory and the Africa Centre received the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Challenge award, for work that has 'significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems,' and in 2015 he received the Mary G. Enig Integrity in Science Award. A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has been voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time.

Reductionist Thinking, Holistic Management and Regenerative Agriculture
[via video link]
No group of farmers in the world has weathered droughts, fires, bad agricultural policies and financial hard times better than those beginning to manage holistically. No surprise, because almost all that ails us is linked to one underlying cause — reductionist management. Join us in learning from people who are leading the way to a new and truly regenerative agriculture.