We were out in the field for a training and recorded it on a whim without any pre-planning, so apologies for the wind interference.

Song: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - K. 620: Aria 'In diesen heil´gen Hallen' (Sarastro) Artist: José van Dam (Baritone) Album: Mozart: Arias & Overtures

Here is a response from Allan: "My figures are I believe very much on the low end of true figures if we had them. I took mine largely from published materials and the SCS when I came to the US. At that time when I was commissioned to provide training to USDA the were telling the public that in the US the amount of dead eroding soil every year equalled a train length of rail cars 116 miles long loaded with soil being exported every day. Other academics put estimates around the 75 Billion tons of soil globally. All or almost all of these estimates were from croplands and not rangelands, forests, etc which are generally about 80% of the land. I knew the soil losses from rangelands to be far far greater than range scientists knew or accepted generally. The infamous Tsumis court case had occurred in Namibia - in which top recognized range scientists with PHDs had testified to "perfection of management" and there being absolutely no soil erosion on the disputed land. Court had adjourned for me to inspect that land for a day taking measurements and photographs. I had produce hard data showing over 90% of the soil between plants to be bare and eroding and evidence from grass roots projecting into the air of well over 40 tons of soil loss per acre in recent years. Generally for illustrative purposes (because there simply are no global figures of any reliability) worked out that roughly half a ton of food is what is required per human per year. Published figures indicated world population at the time of about 7 billion. So with simple maths - 75 billion soil loss (ridiculously low estimate) is about 10 tons per person annually, or twenty times as much dead eroding soil as food we required. None of this is based on any "holistic growing model" as your enquirer asks. Just ridiculously inaccurate published and known figures but I felt safe to say - because I am confident that if ever accurate data was available it would indicate a far worse situation."

And the more I am learning about the savory Institute; the more I am learning how they are answering those very questions too. You should check out the TED talks regarding the savory Institute.

We hear you (no pun intended). This video was made back in 2016 so unfortunately we can't make a new edit with toned down music, but we certainly are keeping it in mind on any new videos we make.

There has most certainly been analysis of the ecological (as well as social and economic) improvements seen as a result of the Holistic Management being implemented here: savory.global/science_library/the-effect-of-holistic-planned-grazing-on-african-rangelands-a-case-study-from-zimbabwe/ What Allan is referring to about hunters supporting the work is that the wildlife numbers are so plentiful now that the landscape has been regenerated.

ADRA is the Adventist Development Relief Agency. They are Savory's on-the-ground partner in Mongolia who has funded this project and brought us in to provide training, support, and EOV monitoring. Here is more about the project from ADRA's website: mongolia.adra.cloud/pasture-land-use-it-sustanably-plus-project/

@@SavoryInstitute thank you. Since I support many ADRA projects, I’d love it if you said or wrote a little bit about it in your presentation which might help ADRA raise more money to enable them to partner with more groups and projects like yours. Love the work you do and your content. It’s brilliant! Thank you.