I was aiming at a pleasant, natural way of farming which results in making the work easier instead of harder. "How about not doing this?" "How about not doing that?" — that was my way of thinking. I ...

Because permaculture aims at growing food with minimum impact on ecosystems, the ideal of natural agriculture seems embedded within its philosophical roots. Indeed, Japanese farmer and philosopher ...

Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer, was remembered by hundreds of organic farmers in Bangalore on Saturday and Sunday... BANGALORE: Masanobu Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer, was remembered by hundreds of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a friend lent me his copy of Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution (republished last year by the New ...

He was keen on visiting Africa, he writes, because he had “a great dream of revegetating the deserts and turning these into lands rich in food with natural farming” In mid-1979, Masanobu Fukuoka, the ...

Fukuoka’s arguments for a non-mechanised, non-science based agriculture are really about a different way of being, and not merely about growing healthier food Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution ...

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide- and ...

MYSURU: 50-year-old farmer in a village in Karnataka has shown, like Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka before him, that from “nothingness” can emerge beautiful forests and farms. Krishnappa Dasappa ...

Anjana Ahuja (“We face a looming rice production crisis”, Opinion, April 9) highlights the importance of rice — staple food for over half the world’s population — the threat of climate change to ...