A starting point for Alan Savory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Savory
The idea of moving grazing livestock to improve soil, cultivation yields
and even sequester more carbon ('holistic management' per Alan Savory,
sounds a lot like ley farming to me. (Ley farming is more than leaving
a field fallow for a season, it is about intelligent crop rotation and
grazing livestock. https://www.dawn.com/news/295878
Darryl
On 4/1/2019 7:00 PM, Joseph Kennedy wrote:
A great concept but I don't much trust any initiative by the UN because there
are usually alternate motives which sometimes are not in the best interests of
the public.
When you compare what Alan Savory is doing to rehabilitate land and provide
hope for Africa and other desperate places in the world to the green wall
initiative - a lot of slick advertising, main objective being to request
public funding, little substance, only Senegal has any results, and I don't
really believe that a comprehensive and sustainable solution is being
implemented. Yes, a grove of trees can raise the water table hundreds of
feet but they are not nurturing and enhancing the soil which is the fundamental
building block of any rehabilitation.
Why wouldn't UN put their money and efforts behind Alan Savory's program which
is tried and proven?
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From: Darryl McMahon <darryl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Undoing Desertification — The Great Green Wall
https://www.greatgreenwall.org/about-great-green-wall
[more available at the website - accessed April 1, 2019 - not a joke]
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