Masanobu Fukuoka

Primera edición en castellano del último libro de Masanobu Fukuoka, traducido póstumamente. Narra los viajes, ideas y reflexiones de la última etapa de la vida de este sencillo agricultor, filósofo y sabio que inspiro a miles de personas en todo el mundo y paso los años de su ancianidad entregado al proposito de la regeneracion de los desiertos. Un relato emotivo y revelador que es tambien un llamado a nuestra regeneracion como seres humanos: sembrar semillas, trascender el conocimiento discriminante, regresar a un paradigma de comunidad y cultura natural.

Este libro es un detallado registro de cómo Fukuoka desarrolló su radical método de agricultura natural. En él muestra la forma de cultivar cosechas sin arar, sin herbicidas o pesticidas, y la relacion entre este metodo y la salud, la nutricion, la educacion, la naturaleza y la espiritualidad. Una obra especial muy buscada por los amantes de la agricultura natural.

"This is what all of humanity has to learn to do, whether it is in economic desert created by Wall Street, or an ecological desert created by globalized corporate agriculture."Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science Technology & EcologyThe 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 humanitys 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.Fukuokas 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 Fukuokas 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 Fukuokas 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. Fukuokas 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.Sowing Seeds in the Desert will persuade any reader that the imperiled living world is our greatest teacher, and inspire them to care for it as vigorously as Fukuoka has.Toby Hemenway, author of Gaias Garden

Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuokas manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror natures own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called do-nothing technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.

Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuokas manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror natures own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called do-nothing technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.Whether youre a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something hereyou may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.

In twenty short books Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah the celebrated pioneer of the do nothing farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing Over the past 75 years a new canon has emerged As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration Their words have endured through the decades becoming the classics of a movement Together these books show the richness of environmental thought and point the way to a fairer saner greener world

Traducción póstuma al castellano del último libro de Masanobu Fukuoka. Narra los viajes, ideas y reflexiones de la última etapa de la vida de este sencillo agricultor, filósofo y sabio que ha inspirado a cientos de miles de personas en todo el mundo y pas