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Holistic Management in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Conservation Strategies on Ysterklip farm
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132560 Holistic Management in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Conservation Strategies on Ysterklip farm Myburgh, Lize Robins, Steven Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology. Sustainable agriculture Conservation of natural resources Range management Agriculture -- Environmental aspects Soil conservation Water conservation Land use Environmental management Agricultural ecology Farm management UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Myburgh, L. 2025. Holistic Management in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Conservation Strategies on Ysterklip farm. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/36dc9f12-1e8b-427a-bb84-ad0520ddc917 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Concerns about climate change and its predicted widespread effects have led to various practices, modes, and processes to ameliorate the effects or render production practices sustainable. Along these lines, Savory, a Zimbabwean ecologist living in the United States, devised Holistic Management, a form of rangeland management that he argued ‘regenerates’ the veld [natural pastures] while sequestering carbon dioxide in the soil. This is achieved through mimicking the grazing patterns of wild herbivores, specifically the so-called ‘herd effect’ where animals move bunched together and trample the ground. Livestock become a ‘tool’ to regenerate the landscape. Holistic Management, touted as a salvational technology, has now spread across the world including the Bushmanland region of South Africa, which is a semi-arid area that has historically experienced cyclical droughts even before climate change. This thesis focuses on a single farm in the Bushmanland that practiced Holistic Management, this method is analysed through the lens of conservation. Within South Africa, conservation emerged in conversation with the pastoral economy and the upliftment of white farmers, as such the choice of a livestock farm as research site engages with these histories. An exploratory approach is adopted, and various dynamics are analysed through the case study including evidence-building, ‘New Age’ beliefs, labour, care, and multispecies entanglements. This approach tempers the macro-narratives that tether conservation and the financialization of nature to capitalist exploitation and environmental catastrophe. Rather, an attempt is made to ‘stay with the trouble’ (Haraway, 2016) of the particular case and demonstrate the diverse practices and competing ideas and interests within what some refer to as ‘neoliberal conservation’ (Fletcher, Dressler & Büscher, 2014). This provides an important opportunity to consider alternative understandings that emerge from close attention to multispecies interactions and the beliefs and practices of livestock farmers and herders attempting to enact conservation. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Masters 2025-06-11T07:59:35Z 2025-06-11T07:59:35Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132560 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 116 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
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| title | Holistic Management in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Conservation Strategies on Ysterklip farm |
| title_full | Holistic Management in Practice: An In-Depth Study of Conservation Strategies on Ysterklip farm |
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| title_sort | holistic management in practice an in depth study of conservation strategies on ysterklip farm |
| topic | Sustainable agriculture Conservation of natural resources Range management Agriculture -- Environmental aspects Soil conservation Water conservation Land use Environmental management Agricultural ecology Farm management UCTD |
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