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Natural Farming , Global Restoration , and Ultimate Food Security
Masanobu Fukuoka
Paperback
$ 24.95
“ This is what all of man has to learn to do , whether it is in economical desert created by Wall Street , or an ecologic desert created by globalized bodied agriculture . ”—Vandana Shiva , father of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology
The earth is in great peril , due to the corporatization of agriculture , the move up climate crisis , and the ever - increase story of global poorness , starving , and desertification on a massive scale . This present circumstance of global trauma is not “ natural , ” but a result of humanity ’s destructive actions . And , consort to Masanobu Fukuoka , it is reversible . We need to commute not only our methods of earth stewardship , but also the very elbow room we mean about the family relationship between human existence and nature .
Fukuoka get up on a farm on the island of Shikoku in Japan . As a young man he ferment as a usance inspector for plants going into and out of the country . This was in the 1930s when skill seemed poised to create a Modern Earth of abundance and leisure time , when masses in full believed they could ameliorate upon nature by apply scientific methods and thereby reap untold rewards . While work there , Fukuoka had an insight that changed his life sentence forever . He returned to his abode small town and enforce this insight to developing a revolutionary new fashion of agriculture that he believed would be of great benefit to society . This method , which he name “ natural farming , ” involved work with , not in opposite to , nature .
Fukuoka ’s inspiring and internationally well - selling account book , The One - Straw Revolutionwas first print in English in 1978 . In this book , Fukuoka account his philosophical system of born farming and why he came to raise the agency he did . One - Strawwas a Brobdingnagian success in the West , and spoke directly to the growing cause of organic Farmer and activist seeking a new way of life of living . For year after its publishing , Fukuoka traveled around the worldly concern propagate his teachings and developing a devoted pursual of farmers seeking to get close to the truth of nature . Sowing come in the Desert , a summation of those eld of travel and research , is Fukuoka ’s last major piece of work - and perhaps his most crucial . Fukuoka spent year working with people and organizations in Africa , India , Southeast Asia , Europe , and the United States , to prove that you could , indeed , turn intellectual nourishment and regenerate woods with very niggling irrigation in the most desolate of place . Only by greening the desert , he say , would the domain ever reach dependable food security .
This revolutionary book lay out Fukuoka ’s plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the cosmos using natural husbandry , including pragmatic solutions for flow a grow human universe , rehabilitating damaged landscapes , overturn the spread of desertification , and providing a inscrutable understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature . Fukuoka ’s message comes right at the time when people around the world seem to have lost their soma of source , and offers us a direction forward .
Sowing Seeds in the Desertwill carry any reader that the imperiled life world is our bang-up teacher , and inspire them to care for it as smartly as Fukuoka has . ”—Toby Hemenway , writer ofGaia ’s Garden
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