Sowing Seeds in the Desert Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security

Name: Sowing Seeds in the Desert Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
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ISBN: 9781603585224

ISBN-10: 1603585222

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Authors: Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn

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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 of global trauma is not "natural," but a result of humanity's destructive actions. And, according to Masanobu Fukuoka, it is reversible. We need to change not only our methods of earth stewardship, but also the very way we think about the relationship between human beings and nature. Fukuoka grew up on a farm on the island of Shikoku in Japan. As a young man he worked as a customs inspector for plants going into and out of the country. This was in the 1930s when science… seemed poised to create a new world of abundance and leisure, when people fully believed they could improve upon nature by applying scientific methods and thereby reap untold rewards. While working there, Fukuoka had an insight that changed his life forever. He returned to his home village and applied this insight to developing a revolutionary new way of farming that he believed would be of great benefit to society. This method, which he called "natural farming," involved working with, not in opposition to, nature. Fukuoka's inspiring and internationally best-selling book, The One-Straw Revolution was first published in English in 1978. In this book, Fukuoka described his philosophy of natural farming and why he came to farm the way he did. One-Straw was a huge success in the West, and spoke directly to the growing movement of organic farmers and activists seeking a new way of life. For years after its publication, Fukuoka traveled around the world spreading his teachings and developing a devoted following of farmers seeking to get closer to the truth of nature. 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. Fukuoka spent years working with people and organizations in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, to prove that you could, indeed, grow food and regenerate forests with very little irrigation in the most desolate of places. Only by greening the desert, he said, would the world ever achieve true food security. This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka's plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the world using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, rehabilitating damaged landscapes, reversing the spread of desertification, and providing a deep 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 frame of reference, and offers us a way forward.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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,…



Introduction


Editor's Notes


About the Illustrations



The Call to Natural Farming


My Return to Farming


Challenges During Wartime


The True Meaning of Nature


The Errors of Human Thought


No God or Buddha Will Rescue the Human Race


The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah


A Life of Natural Culture



Reconsidering Human Knowledge


The Birth of Discriminating Knowledge


Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection


Understanding True Time and Space


The Rising and Sinking of Genes


An Alternative View of Evolution


Naturally Occurring Hybrids in My Rice Fields


Abandoning What We Think We Know



Healing a World In Crisis


Restoring the Earth and Its People


In Nature, There Are No Beneficial or Harmful Insects


Eastern and Western Medicine


The Fear of Death


The Question of Spirit


The Money-Sucking Octopus Economy


The Illusion of the Law of Causality


The Current Approach of Desertification Countermeasures



Global Desertification


Lessons from the Landscapes of Europe and the United States


The Tragedy of Africa


Sowing Seeds in an African Refugee Camp



Revegetating the Earth Through Natural Methods


Agricultural "Production" Is Actually Deduction


Commercial Feedlots Will Destroy the Land, Cultured Fish the Sea


Sowing Seeds in the Desert


Creating Greenbelts


The Revegetation of India


Notes from an International Environmental Summit


Travels on the West Coast of the United States


Farmers' Markets


Urban Natural Farms


People Sow and Birds Sow


Rice Growing in the Sacramento Valley


From Organic Farming to Natural Farming


Two International Conferences


Japanese Cedars at the Zen Center


Appendices



Creating a Natural Farm in Temperate and Subtropical Zones



Making Clay Seed Pellets for Use in Revegetation



Producing an AU-Around Natural Culture Medium