Precious Phiri: "Holistic Management in Practice: The Ecological, Economic, and Social Benefits"

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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