For almost 30 years, Daniela Ibarra-Howell has practiced holistic grazing on her Colorado ranch.
so that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, say many climate-change experts, we have to consume lessred meatanddairy.
They argue that cattle and other ruminantstake up too much land and produce too much methane.
The world is finally paying attention.
The Zimbabwean livestock farmer and researcher had invented an approach to ranching that he called “holistic management.”
“We did our own boots-on-the-ground research, understanding what this approach was all about,” she says.
“We became great believers.”
She was the obvious choice for CEO," writes Savory in an email.
Howdoyou change ranching around the worldespecially when every ecosystem, every culture, every economy is different?
Too many climate change interventions, Ibarra-Howell says, drown in “eddies of intellectual discussions.”
“She understands that this is important work for the soil and for the Earth.”
Some scientists have contested Savory’s claims about how holistic grazing might reverse climate change.
One of the Savory Institute’s largest successes is itsLand to Marketprogram, which launched in 2018.
And Ibarra-Howell has seen the impact of the Savory Institute’s work reach beyond the environmental and the economic.
