As fascination with buffalo increases, more ranches in the Rockies and the Plains are offering tours, taking visitors deep into pastures where the buffalo roam to see and hand-feed these curious creatures. Inter-changeably called bison.
Says: Farmers/herders need one another
Farmers/pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria will not end unless••
CR government pioneers unique solution
By Ebele Orakpo
APART from unrelenting Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks, Nigeria and Nigerians have in recent years continued to witness unconscionable destruction of lives and property through frequent herdsmen and farmers clashes. Indeed, what initially began as intermittent but innocuous quarrels between farmers and herdsmen over land and grazing routes soon escalated into bloody clashes. The clashes first began in the Middle Belt states of Plateau and Benue before spreading to neighbouring states of Adamawa, Nasarawa and Taraba and later to the Southern part of the country.
Herdsmen/farmers crises: How desertification, climate change trigger bloody clashes
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Says: Farmers/herders need one another
Farmers/pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria will not end unless••
CR government pioneers unique solution
By Ebele Orakpo
APART from unrelenting Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks, Nigeria and Nigerians have in recent years continued to witness unconscionable destruction of lives and property through frequent herdsmen and farmers clashes. Indeed, what initially began as intermittent but innocuous quarrels between farmers and herdsmen over land and grazing routes soon escalated into bloody clashes. The clashes first began in the Middle Belt states of Plateau and Benue before spreading to neighbouring states of Adamawa, Nasarawa and Taraba and later to the Southern part of the country.
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This Local Motion features parts of Allan Savory s presentation Hope for Humanity in Holistic Management from the 9th Annual Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum.
Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.
In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, AND In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.