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      • Natural farming (自然農法, shizen nōhō), also referred to as "the Fukuoka Method", "the natural way of farming", or "do-nothing farming", is an ecological farming approach established by Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008). Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer and philosopher, introduced the term in his 1975 book The One-Straw Revolution.
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  3. Masanobu continued his research into the natural farming methods of “no cultivation, no chemical fertilizer, and no weeding,” which ran counter to the swift modernization of agriculture during Japan’s period of rapid economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s.

  4. The substantiation, verification, and establishment of Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming method was an expansive, worldwide undertaking. It was a path to unraveling the providence of the universe in hand with nature—at times gentle and at others harsh.

  5. Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡 正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands.

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    According to his account in The One-Straw Revolution (Fukuoka, 1978/2009), Fukuoka’s journey to natural farming began with a philosophical realisation. After working as a successful agricultural researcher for several years, he found himself one morning struck by the realisation that all human knowledge is empty, all human action is meaningless and...

    Fukuoka claims that farming with nature exposes the limits of human knowledge. The ecosystem that the farm is woven into consists of an infinitely complex web of interactions which are beyond the capacity of the human mind to grasp. ‘Knowledge’ of nature is always hubris; one can only know, at best, a representation of nature within the mind, and t...

    Another way in which Fukuoka draws on Buddhism, is in conceptualising problems of contemporary food systems in terms of desire. He details how many of the problems in Japanese agriculture have stemmed from a desire for food that is ‘unnatural’ or out of sync with local ecological realities. For example, our desires for shiny, unblemished, firm and ...

    One of the most ambiguous and intriguing features of Fukuoka’s philosophy is the status of ‘nature.’ As he notes, from an analytical perspective, it may be very difficult to distinguish the natural from the unnatural. This is particularly the case with farming, given that human intervention is always in some sense a part of agriculture. Yet, he ins...

    In my next two posts in this series, I will draw on my fieldwork in Japan and in India to explore Fukuoka’s approach to farming in more depth. In the next post, I will relate my 2015 visit to Fukuoka’s farm in Iyo, Japan, and look at what has happened there since Fukuoka’s passed away in 2008. In the final post, I consider the potential appeal of F...

    Fukuoka, M. (1978/2009). The One-Straw Revolution (L. Korn, C. Pearce & T. Kurosawa, Trans.). New York Review Books: New York

  6. Aug 8, 2020 · In his later life, Masanobu Fukuoka became very concerned with using natural farming to solve real-world problems. This was reflected in the progression of ideas in his writings. In his first book, The One-Straw Revolution, Fukuoka (1978/2009) outlined the philosophy and practice of natural farming.

  7. Explore the life and work of Masanobu Fukuoka, whose natural farming philosophy advocates for no-till, pesticide-free cultivation.

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