What is Holistic Management®?
HMI is an Albuquerque-based, international nonprofit organization that provides training, courses and consulting services to stewards of large landscapes, including ranchers, farmers, pastoral communities, government agencies, NGOs, environmental advocacy groups and other non-profits.
HMI’s proven holistic practices yield a “triple bottom line”
of sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits by:
- Improving soil health and biodiversity of rangelands and pastures.
- Increasing grazing and wildlife capacity.
- Increasing annual profits and enhancing livelihoods.
- Optimally using rainfall and conserving water.
- Growing healthier crops and achieving higher yields.
- Reversing desertification in brittle environments.
- Breaking the cycle of food and water insecurity.
- Enhancing family relationships.
- Resisting and positively affecting global climate change.
HMI also trains Certified Educators to educate others about Holistic Management®,
which replaces fragmentary decision-making and short-term solutions with
a system that encompasses a whole, long-term process of restoring damaged
land and managing healthy land.
30 million acres of land worldwide currently benefit from Holistic
Management® practices.
History of Holistic Management®
The idea of Holistic Management® began more than 40 years ago to offer land stewards a comprehensive framework for identifying specific goals; making grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively impact land health and productivity; and performing effective monitoring in ways that specifically further those goals.![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090116051836im_/http://www.holisticmanagement.org/n7/Projects/projects_images/SARE.jpg)
HMI was founded in 1984.