Allan Savory - Developing a Holistic Context to Mitigate Global Warming - Nov 9, 2019. Interviewer, Seth Itzkan, Soil4Climate Inc. - Allan Savory is a Zimbabwean ecologist, livestock farmer, and president and co-founder of the Savory Institute. He originated Holistic management, a systems thinking approach to managing resources. His 2013 TED talk, titled “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change,” has been viewed over 7 million times.