TED Radio Hour 9:20 am Fri November 15, 2013  How Can Deserts
Turn Into Grasslands?  Credit James Duncan Davidson / TED
Originally published on Thu December 26, 2013 3:06 pm  Part 3 of
the TED Radio Hour episode Misconceptions.  About Allan Savory's
TEDTalk  About two-thirds of the world's grasslands have turned
into desert. Allan Savory has devoted his life to stopping it.
He now believes that a surprising factor can protect grasslands
and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.  About
Allan Savory  Allan Savory works to promote holistic management
in the grasslands of the world. In the 1960s, while working in
Africa on the interrelated problems of increasing poverty and
disappearing wildlife, Savory made a significant breakthrough in
understanding the degradation and desertification of grassland
ecosystems.  In 1992, Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield,
formed the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, a
learning site for people all over Africa. In 2010, the Centre
won the Buckminste