La nuova edizione del volume di Masanobu Fukuoka. Nel libro l'autore spiega come è arrivato al cuore della natura e sia arrivato all'agricoltura naturale. Nel libro è contenuto il messaggio profetico di Fukuoka che invita a diventare 'seminatori nel deserto' che nel libro ha distillato le scoperte di una vita e scuote dalle fondamenta la civiltà moderna. L'affermazione che più destò scalpore fu che l'acqua, il fiume, gli alberi, il cielo, l'aria è Dio, la natura è Dio. La 'divinità' e l'importanza della Natura stanno assumendo un ruolo sempre più importante e urgente nella nostra società. Il pensiero di Fukuoka è risultato profetico, innovativo, attuale.

The 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 humanity's 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.

Fukuoka's 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 Fukuoka's 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 Fukuoka's 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. Fukuoka's 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.

Ultimo fondamentale libro postumo di Masanobu Fukuoka, già pubblicato in giapponese e in greco. In questo testo, Fukuoka spiega come è arrivato al cuore della natura e come i suoi scritti precedenti (in Italia sono usciti 'La rivoluzione del filo di paglia', presso la LEF, e 'La fattoria biologica' presso Edizioni Mediterranee) rappresentano la sua strada per arrivare all'agricoltura naturale. Dopo 30 anni di viaggi, alla fine della sua vita, ha lasciato il suo ultimo messaggio 'La rivoluzione di Dio, della natura e dell'uomo' per aiutarci a rinverdire la terra, a renderla un'immagine del cielo.

Masanobu Fukuoka’s book about growing food has been changing the lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. At the same time, it is the memoir of a man whose spiritual beliefs underpin and inform every aspect of his innovative farming system.

Equal parts farmer and philosopher, Fukuoka is recognized as one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement. But when he was twenty-five, he was just another biologist taking advantage of the unprecedented development of postwar Japan. Then a brush with death shattered his complacency. He quit his job and returned to his family farm. Over the decades that followed, Fukuoka perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique, a way of farming that dispenses with both modern agribusiness practices and centuries of folk wisdom, replacing them with a system that seeks to work with nature rather than make it over through increasingly elaborate–and often harmful –methods. Fukuoka developed commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminated the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and the wasteful effort associated with them–and his yields matched those of neighboring factory farms. His farm became a gathering place for people from all over the world who wished to adapt his ways to their own local cultures.

Now, more than thirty years after they were first published, Fukuoka’s teachings are more relevant and necessary than ever.

In questo volume Fukuoka svela i segreti del suo approccio all'agricoltura naturale, la teoria e la pratica del lavoro con la natura, la maniera di vivere meglio grazie ad essa. In modo al tempo stesso filosofico e pratico, egli guida i lettori attraverso campi rigogliosi e spiega come si può e 'si deve' cambiare il modo di fare le cose se si vuole stare in pace con la terra e con se stessi.