Les animaux de pâturage sont souvent accusés de nuire à l’environnement, mais ce ne sont pas les animaux qui causent des dommages, c’est la façon dont les humains gèrent le bétail et les terres sur lesquelles ils vivent, selon l’Institut Savory. Le Savory Institute est un réseau mondial d’agriculteurs et de gestionnaires de terres qui s’efforcent de “faciliter la régénération à grande échelle des prairies du monde entier et les moyens de subsistance de leurs habitants, grâce à une “gestion holistique”.
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Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon
When Erica Chenoweth started her predoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 2006, she believed in the strategic logic of armed resistance. She had studied terrorism, civil war, and major revolutions — Russian, French, Algerian, and American — and suspected that only violent force had achieved major social and political change. But then a workshop led her to consider proving that violent resistance was more successful than the nonviolent kind. Since the question had never been addressed systematically, she and colleague Maria J. Stephan began a research project.