The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming: The Visionary Modern Classic: A Way of Farming, and a Way of Life, to Heal the Land and the Human Spirit - Softcover

Masanobu Fukuoka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553247395 ISBN 13: 9780553247398

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1985

Synopsis

Describes the development and impact of the Japanese scientist-farmer's natural farming methods, paying attention to the system's high agricultural yield and importance as a model for a simpler, more permanent society

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About the Author

Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 2008) was born and raised on the Japanese island of Shikoku. He was the oldest son of a rice farmer who was also the local mayor. Fukuoka studied plant pathology and worked for number of years as a produce inspector in the customs office in Yokohama. But in 1938 he returned to his village home determined to put his ideas about natural farming into practice. During World War II, he worked for the Japanese government as a researcher on food production, managing to avoid military service until the final few months of the war. After the war, he returned to Shikoku to devote himself wholeheartedly to farming. And in 1975, distressed by the effects of Japan s post-war modernization, Fukuoka wrote The One-Straw Revolution. In his later years, Fukuoka was involved with several projects to reduce desertification throughout the world. He remained an active farmer until well into his eighties, and continued to give lectures until only a few years before his death at the age of ninety-five. Fukuoka is also the author of The Natural Way of Farming and The Road Back to Nature. In 1988 he received the Magsaysay Award for Public Service.Frances Moore Lappé is author or co-author of sixteen books, including Diet for a Small Planet and Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad. She has co-founded three organizations, including the Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. In 1987, she received the Right Livelihood Award, also called the Alternative Nobel. She has received seventeen honorary doctorates and has been a visiting scholar at MIT.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0553247395
• ISBN 13: 9780553247398
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 155
• Editor: Larry Korn
• Illustrator: Chuck Miller