Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security - Couverture rigide

Fukuoka, Masanobu

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ISBN 10 : 1603584188 ISBN 13 : 9781603584180

Editeur : Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2012

Synopsis

Sowing Seeds in the Desert The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. But according to Fukuoka, it is reversible. Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a farmer and philosopher who was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He studied plant pathology and spent several years working as a customs inspector in Yokohama. While working there, at the age of 25, he had an inspiration that changed his life. He decided to quit his job, return to his home village, and put his ideas into practice by applying them to agriculture. Over the next sixty-five years he worked to develop a system of natural farming that demonstrated the insight he was given as a young man, believing that it could be of great benefit to the world. He did not plow his fields, used no agricultural chemicals or prepared fertilizers, and did not flood his rice fields as farmers have done in Asia for centuries, and yet his yields equaled or surpassed the most productive farms in Japan. In 1975 he wrote The One-Straw Revolution, a best-selling book that described his life s journey, his philosophy, and farming techniques. This book has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and has helped make Mr. Fukuoka a leader in the worldwide sustainable agriculture movement. He continued farming until shortly before his death in 2008, at the age of ninety-five. After The One-Straw Revolution was published in English, Mr. Fukuoka traveled to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States. His interest turned to rehabilitating the deserts of the world using his natural farming techniques. Mr. Fukuoka is also the author of The Natural Way of Farming and The Road Back to Nature. In 1988 he received the Magsaysay Award, often referred to as the Nobel of Asia, for Public Service.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The earth is in great peril due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition is not natural , according to Masanobu Fukuoka, but a result of humanity s destructive actions. In 1978, Fukuoka s inspiring and international best-selling book, The One-Straw Revolution, spoke directly to the growing movement of organic farmers and activists seeking a new way of life. For years after its publication, Fukuoka travelled the world spreading his teachings, and worked with a devoted following of farmers and organizations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, to show how you could grow food and regenerate forests with very little irrigation in the most desolate places. Sowing Seeds in the Desert, a summation of those years of travel and research, is Fukuoka s last major work and perhaps his most important. The book presents Fukuoka s revolutionary plan to rehabilitate the world s deserts and achieve global food security by using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, and providing a deep and renewed understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature. Fukuoka s message comes at a time when people around the world seem to have lost their frame of reference, and offers us a way forward.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1603584188
• ISBN 13: 9781603584180
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216