Allan Savory, thinking out-of-the-box, promotes livestock as the answer to desertification and climate change. “There is only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable: to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and to mimic nature”. It goes counter to traditional thinking, of course, but hear his talk and see what you think.

More land, better life? South African farming study asks if that’s the road to rural development
One of the most important lessons is that many rural households are not simply waiting for an agricultural intervention.

