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Holistic Management: In Practice
By Precious Phiri
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From across this patch looks covered, but in essence its bare and capped
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Totally bare and capped land
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Back Ground
DEGRADED AND FOREST AREAS OF ZIMBABWE
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Agric Regions
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Agro-ecological zones of Zimbabwe
Natural Region Area (km-2) Rainfall (mm yr-
1)Farming system
I 7 000 >1 000 Specialized and diversified farming
II 58 600 750 – 1 000 Intensive farming
III 72 900 650 - 800 Semi-intensive farming
IV 147 800 450 - 650 Semi-extensive farming
V 104 400 <450 Extensive farming12
Solutions
What is Holistic Management?• DECISION making framework offering:
• low cost,
• high ecology solutions to food security, biodiversity loss, desertification and climate change
The First Insight: Manage as a whole
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State, Nation, Universe, Etc.
Local Community
Farming Cooperative
Work
Family
Other whole
Other whole
Other whole
You
The Second Insight: The brittleness scale
The Third Insight: the predator-prey
connection to the land
The Fourth Insight: Plant recovery time (timing is
everything)
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Community Action Cycle
Act Together
Evaluate Together
Explore Land Restoration Issues & Set
Priorities
Plan Together
Prepare to Mobilize
Prepare to Scale Up
Organize the Community for Action
Program Team Community
Community outreach
Benefits
Training and knowledge sharing
Progressive Communities
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Grazing planning
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Herding together helps save livestock from snares
The New Face of Climate Heroes
Tools used
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Mobile Kraals in cropfields
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Cropfield in Chikomba District
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Conventional Plough farming
Animal impacted field
380ml rain
2 months and
5 months worth of Food!
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Less stress animal handling improves animal behaviour
Livestock increase -71% in Chezya community
Healing the Land using overnight kraals
The Earth Doctor- Dung Beetle
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Namibia Site
Sept 2004
Sept 2006
2006
Animal Impact
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Elbow
2009
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Very hard to recognise!
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2004 2005
2006 2007
Neighboring community river- same day
2006 2011
Sianyanga Community: Paddock 3
Revived Rangelands
GoogleDigital Globe • Geo Eye • Cnes
/ Spot Image
New Surface Waterin Dry Season
1.5 Km / 30 ft elev
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Sizinda River
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RSA Grazing Land
Mafuta, March- 2013
Mafuta, March - 2014
From this To This
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