In a film documenting this visit, we see Fukuoka speaking of a world in turmoil, in which more and more people are coming to him for direction. Masanobu Fukuoka ( Japanese: 福岡 正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. In Sowing Seeds in the Desert, Fukuoka (2012) treats the problems of developing societies as part of a generalised sickness afflicting all of the modern world.

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Long before the American Michael Pollan, he was making the connections between intensive agriculture, unhealthy eating habits and a whole destructive economy based on oil. If we allowed ourselves to place value on things other than ownership, many of our problems would drop away. In 1937 he was hospitalised with pneumonia, and while recovering, he stated that he had a profound spiritual experience that transformed his world view [9] [10] [11] and led him to doubt the practices of modern "Western" agricultural science. His guiding assumption was that the trouble of desertification was misguided human interventions into nature, and that the solution lay in removing these interventions and allowing nature to run its course. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution. Fukuoka also took the opportunity to visit farms, forests and cities giving lectures and meeting people. We hope that the problem of poverty can be solved through more consumption, without recognising the extent to which consumption is part of the problem. One Straw Revolution" was followed by "The Natural Way of Farming" and then by "The Road Back To Nature.

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One-Straw Revolutionaryis the first book to look deeply at natural farming and intimately discuss the philosophy and work of Mr. Whether you’re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here–you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own. In Sowing Seeds in the Desert, Fukuoka (2012) argues against this approach, as it relies on the construction of harmful dams or the tapping of finite ground water reserves and may ultimately lead to the salinisation of soils. If you want to know more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy.

Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. At the time of his revelation, Fukuoka was living in a Japan that was abandoning its traditional farming methods and adopting Western agriculture, economic and industrial models. in Japanese) 自然農法-緑の哲学の理論と実践 1985 translation -updated 1987 The Natural Way Of Farming-The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy -pages 132 and 190-216 - page 132 "There is a fundamental difference between nature and the doctrine of laissez-faire or non-intervention. The complexity of seed species, guilds and companion plantings is infinitely complex — from a single crop to a successional assemblage composed of all the species for a mature ecosystem, along with all the pioneer and mid-succession plants needed to bring a degraded landscape back into productivity.