Dear Jamie, maybe you prefer people to not give ANY comments here or only positive ones? maybe you expect people to accept EVERYTHING because Savory has been...
I think all agree that overgrazing in a particular area leads to loss of complete vegetation and there is no disagreement on this. Â Go through the details of...
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Mar 16, 2013 8:04 pm
; - ( Oh dear, apologies, I have had a sudden outbreak of curiosity: Is there a goat tradition in India? The Anglo Nubian is a beautiful animal and that came...
Hi all This is a question to the moderator, or moderators I have now had 3 or 4 emails that I sent to the group that are not published. I have asked the...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 16, 2013 8:04 pm
There's maybe a little cultural issue here - in the US things are very often presented as "New Magic Solution to all your Problems!" when actually they are...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 16, 2013 8:04 pm
I'm not aware that long term Natural Farming systems using legumes for nitrate fixing lead to problems which may need this kind of intervention, and soil...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 16, 2013 8:05 pm
The video is not about India - it is about places like The landscapes in the Video are too poor to support arable farming directly. The cattle are there to...
Dear friends, In 1999 when Fukuoka was in Gandhi ashram I asked him about this issue.He replied that problem of desertification is directly related with...
I can not watch videos because my computer is too old, but in the US we have a large area that is now intensively farmed using industrial agriculture which is...
For me the most valuable thing from Allan Savory's video is that map of the world showing that more than half the land mass is bare, or as good as bare. I...
Alan, since you have also mentioned Easter island. I sometimes wonder whether we are any better than other 'animals'. I mean the Easter islanders probably...
Nandan, I'm not sure that it's purely climate related so much as it its biome related, specifically grasslands. If you look at the case studies map -...
Yes. There are shepherds in our area. In fact, during the agricultural off-season(Feb-May) they take the herds to various agricultural fields and make them...
Alan, Ah, yes but TED presents if not miracles, then ideas to inspire and stimulate thought. And the Savory video has done just that. I'm seeing it pop up in...
Ohnwentsya, It's also worth looking at areas where people have lived for 1000s of years that are heavily de-nuded if not deserts - The Fertile Crescent,...
Sumant, We never do anything until we are forced to even when we know that we should. We tend to reject the obvious and fit reality to what we want or don't...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 17, 2013 1:23 pm
I never thought for one minute that India was anywhere near the desert areas outlined in the map in the video! However, there are patches which are suffering...
@Alan ... ******* Yes there has a steady decrease in the indigenous cattle breeds(more than 40 breeds) in favour of the "high yielding" western varieties...
 Mike you might like to see this little trailer of a documentary which is supposed to be a solution to your problem. ...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 17, 2013 1:55 pm
Harish, I don't understand the seasons in India but in Western Europe we have a harvest in the Autumn and then in former times animals could be turned into the...
Mike, Thanks for that pointer, it looks like the grass lands. I remember some where Fukuoka san mentioning the same thing about California where he could feel...
I felt getting the crop established in dry mulch is little tricky, when I put cowpea, had to water it once to get it established. Probably with better timing,...
Dear Jamie, I guess I have been a bit brusque with you. My apologies. everyone has an opinion and I must respect that. Humans desperately want to believe in...
I think farming with weeds is not that easy as suggested by Rajuji. I think it takes real time for the no-till and grass control to work. I am trying to grow...
Mike, Thanks for that pointer, it looks like the grass lands. I remember some where Fukuoka san mentioning the same thing about California where he could feel...
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 17, 2013 5:30 pm
Mike, One thing I discovered when I gave up smoking was to change a whole lot if different stuff about my life at the same time, I changed jobs, went in a...
Thanks, Sumant. I don't eat packaged food. And my sugar intake is limited and specific. Mostly in the jams and jellies that we make from fruit from our garden....
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Alan Sloan
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Mar 17, 2013 10:34 pm
Hi Nandan, There is no way we can predict the weather two weeks in advance here so sowing times are a matter of guessing, or if its warm enough then we have to...
Thanks Allan. I also quit smoking (back in the mid 80s). I agree with you about how your outlook changes. I was raising the personal weight issue (to clarify,...
