Grassroots Restoration: Holistic Management for Villages

by Sam Bingham

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Sam Bingham's illustrated introductory manual is one of the best books ever written about Holistic Management. Developed in village settings in West and Southern Africa, the 90-page manual was first printed by the Allan Savory Center for Holistic Management in 1997. It makes a great introduction or review for anyone. Please share it widely.

Thanks to Sam and the Savory Center, it is now available for free download, under a Creative Commons license that allows open copying, modification, and distribution. (Attribution is required, and permission is required for commercial use.) Some rights reserved.

It is available in English, Russian, and French as a printable PDF file. It is also available as HTML (English only) and Microsoft Word (Russian only) if you wish to modify it. If anyone can translate this work into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, or any other language, we will gladly post the result for download.

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View or download manual (HTML, PDF, Word)

English

Browse HTML version
Text = 300Kb, pictures = 4 mb
Acrobat Reader format (PDF)
(right click this link and choose Save Target As to download to your computer) vmen.pdf (4.8 MB)

Francaise

Acrobat Reader format (PDF)
(right click this link and choose Save Target As to download to your computer) vmfr.pdf (3.6 MB)

Russian

Холистическое управление Microsoft Word format (DOC)
(right click this link and choose Save Target As to download to your computer) vmru.doc (2.0 MB)
Холистическое управление Acrobat Reader format (PDF)
(right click this link and choose Save Target As to download to your computer) vmru.pdf (3.8 MB)

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Revised 20 October 2005
URL: managingwholes.com/village/index.htm