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Controlled intensive grazing: Savannah Grasslands, Africa
Steenbergen, Frank, A. Tuinhof, L. Knoop, and J. H. Kauffman. 2011. "Controlled intensive grazing: Savannah Grasslands, Africa." In Transforming landscapes, transforming lives: the business of sustainable water buffer management, 72-77.

Key Takeaways

  • This chapter appears in a book about sustainable land management, the development of water buffers, and the business case in favor of investment in natural resource management.
  • The chapter largely provides a case study from Dimbangombe Ranch, Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield's home in Zimbabwe.
  • The financial payback, economic dividend, and social impact of investing in integrated landscapes – if done properly – are rewarding: sustainable land management and water buffers transforms lives by providing economic security.
  • Holistic Planned Grazing increases the rainfall infiltration rate of soil and its ability to sequester carbon, such that a greater amount of rainfall enters and is held by soil, helping to prevent flooding and improve drought resilience.

Summary

This book is about sustainable land management, the development of water buffers and the business case underneath it. It is part of the discussion on the green economy: investment in natural resource management makes business sense. This also applies for investment in land, water and vegetative cover. Some of the parameters may be different – returns may not always be immediate – but essentially both the financial payback and the economic dividend of investing in integrated landscapes – if done properly – are rewarding. The social impact moreover is important – investing in sustainable land and water buffers will transform lives and economies. Having a buffer gives a sense of security and the reassurance that come what may one’s livelihood is secured.

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