Sowing seeds in the desert : natural farming, global restoration, and ultimate food security

Sowing seeds in the desert Natural farming, global restoration, and ultimate food security

Masanobu Fukuoka

Book - 2012

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Subjects
Desert reclamation.
Desertification > Control.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects.
Revegetation.
Published
White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub 2012.
Language
English
Japanese
Main Author
Masanobu Fukuoka (-)
Other Authors
Larry Korn (-)
Item Description
"Translated into English and adapted from the book originally published in Japanese in 1996 by Shou Shin Sha, Japan, as The Ultimatum of God, Nature."
Physical Description
168 pages
ISBN
9781603585224
9781603584180
  • Introduction
  • Editor's Notes
  • About the Illustrations
  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. Global Desertification
  • Lessons from the Landscapes of Europe and the United States
  • The Tragedy of Africa
  • Sowing Seeds in an African Refugee Camp
  • 5. 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
  • Appendix A. Creating a Natural Farm in Temperate and Subtropical Zones
  • Appendix B. Making Clay Seed Pellets for Use in Revegetation
  • Appendix C. Producing an AU-Around Natural Culture Medium

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