Science

This Learning & Resource Center is your go-to spot for resources about the Land to Market program, Ecological Outcome Verification, Holistic Management, Savory Institute, and a host of peer-reviewed studies and white papers that make the case for regenerative agriculture. Here you will also find before and after and fence line photos and videos that you are welcome to use.

Get Started Here

If you’re new to Regenerative Agriculture and just beginning to learn about the potential it has to prevent and reverse desertification and restore Earth’s ecosystems, there is no one better place to begin your journey with than Allan Savory, co-founder of the Savory Institute. Check out his groundbreaking TED Talk below.

What is Holistic Management?

Holistic Management has been successfully implemented on nearly 29 million hectares (71 million acres) across over 22,000 trained land managers. It is successful because it is a cost-effective, highly scalable, and a nature-based solution. It is sustainable because it increases land productivity, livestock stocking rates, and profits. Holistic Management uses a decision-making process to help ensure that the actions taken to restore land and livelihoods are ecologically, socially and economically sound based on the context described by the people involved. In two-thirds of the world that is grasslands, much of the land regeneration involves the use of livestock, which are managed to mimic the behaviors of ancient wild herds in a manner that heals degraded soils, improves ecosystem function, and builds biodiversity.

How Can we Accelerate Regeneration?

Land to Market was created to be an accelerator for regenerative agriculture and holistic management through serving the marketplace. By meeting brand’s needs for regeneratively grown food, fiber, and hides, Land to Market verification further incentives land managers to drive for ongoing measurable land health improvements.

One Pager Overview Document

How is Regeneration Measured?

Ecological Outcome Verification (EOV) is the “science inside” Savory Institute’s Land toMarket program. Land to Market (L2M) is a sourcing solution that connects conscientious buyers, brands and retailers directly to farms and ranches that are verified to be regenerating their land. EOV is the empirically based protocol used to verify farms and ranches to be eligible to participate in the L2M program. EOV was developed in collaboration with leading soil scientists, ecologists, agronomists, and an extensive network of regenerative land managers around the world. EOV is a practical and scalable soil and landscape assessment methodology that tracks outcomes in biodiversity, soil health, and ecosystem function (water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics). EOV applies to grassland environments, including natural and seeded grasslands, as well as grazed orchards, sylvopastoral systems and mixed livestock-cropping systems and/or forest areas. Pure cropping systems would not be included, except for Pilot projects.Farms and ranches demonstrating positively trending outcomes in land regeneration through EOV are eligible to be entered into a “Verified Regenerative Supplier Roster”, from which participating buyers, brands, retailers and end consumers can access products or services that have been produced on a verified regenerative land base.

EOV Overview

EOV One Pager

EOV Covering Ground Story

EOV MEASURES REGENERATION THROUGH A HOST OF ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS:

EOV Regeneration Measure: Water Infiltration

EOV Regeneration Measure: Soil Carbon & Soil Health

Resources: Studies, Facts, Photos and Infographics

The Savory Institute has gathered a collection of peer viewed studies, white papers, and other resources such as photos and infographics that are great explainers when communicating about the benefits of regenerative agriculture to internal teams and externally to customers. Peruse both their Science Library and Resource Library. And if you’re looking for more “snack-able” talking points, check out Land to Market’s summarized talking points. If you are looking for marketing assets see the Marketing and Communications Tool Kit.