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	Masanobu Fukuoka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masanobu Fukuoka (福岡正信 Fukuoka Masanobu), born February 2, 1914, author of The One-Straw Revolution, The Road Back to Nature and The Natural Way Of Farming, is one of the pioneers of no-till grain cultivation.
		Fukuoka practices a system of farming he refers to as "natural farming." Although some of his practices are specific to Japan, the governing philosophy of his method has successfully been applied around the world.
		The Fukuoka method is not suited to growing large quantities of grain, like those presently produced in the industrialised world by means of large-scale mechanization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka (799 words)

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		Fukuoka produces citrus and grains including rice, he believes in minimal interference to create a natural balance, he believes that upsetting the balance by using insecticides to destroy pests perpetuates a cycle of imbalance, creating a system permanently dependent on insecticides, which results in greater long term insect damage once predators are destroyed.
		Masanobu Fukuoka also emphasizes the importance and sustainability of the small farm he recognizes that modern commercial agriculture has diminished the spiritual nature of farming and the underlying message seems to be the unsustainable nature of large farm mechanical operations.
		Fukuoka's book also goes on to speak of increasing concern in Japan about the deterioration of the environment, contamination of food, the large amounts of chemical fertilisers being, used of which only a small portion is being used by the plant life while the excess leaches into seas and rivers.
	www.ibiblio.org /permaculture-online/booksust.html (649 words)

	Masanobu Fukuoka
		Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution and The Natural Way Of Farming is one of the pioneers of 'no-till' grain cultivation.
		The essence of this method of organic farming is to reproduce natural conditions as closely as possible.
		In Japan, the Fukuoka method has given similar yields to chemically grown crops and much work has already been done to adapt it to European conditions, including the work of French farmer Marc Bonfils.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Masanobu_Fukuoka.html (377 words)

	Masanobu Fukuoka - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Masanobu Fukuoka (福岡正信 Fukuoka Masanobu), born February 2,1914, author of The One-Straw Revolution The Road Back to Nature, and The Natural Way Of Farming, is one of the pioneers of no-till grain cultivation.
		Fukuoka practices a system of farming he refers to as "natural farming." Although some of his practices are of course specific to Japan, the governing philosophy of his method has successfully been applied around the world.
		The timing and circumstances of Fukuoka's conversion from Western agricultural science, to organic methods, parallel the new movement in the 1940s to organic farming and gardening in Europe and the US, led by pioneers like Lady Eve Balfour, Sir Albert Howard, and J.I. Rodale (founder of Rodale Press).
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Masanobu_Fukuoka (693 words)

	An article on the pioneer of organic farming, Masanobu Fukuoka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And not without reason: Fukuoka is author of The One-straw Revolution, an extraordinary document that distills the deepest of philosophical and spiritual truths into a practical approach to farming that he calls natural or do-nothing farming.
		Fukuoka is a recipient of the Deshikottam Award presented in 1988 by the Vishwa Bharati University in Santiniketan, India.
		Fukuoka's present battle is against the popularization of the US-based Super Rice, in which he sees a sinister plot to control the world through the control of the grain markets.
	www.lifepositive.com /body/nature/fukuoka-organicfarming.asp (1124 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fukuoka, Fukuoka
		Fukuoka (福岡市; -shi) is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan, across the Korea Strait from South Korea's Busan.
		Fukuoka was formerly the residence of the powerful daimyo of Chikuzen, and played a conspicuous part in the medieval history of Japan; the renowned temple of Ieyasu in the district was destroyed by fire during the Boshin war of 1868.
		Fukuoka's most famous major fault, the Kego fault, was runs northwest to southeast, roughly parallel to Nishitetsu's Omuta train line, and was previously thought to be 22 km long.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Fukuoka_City (1901 words)

	Fukuoka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fukuoka, Fukuoka (福岡市), a city in Fukuoka Prefecture
		Fukuoka, Gifu (福岡町), a town in Gifu Prefecture
		Masanobu Fukuoka, author of "The One Straw Revolution," pioneer of no-till farming
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fukuoka (182 words)

	Sakthi Foundation - Pancha Bhoota Healing
		Masanobu Fukuoka practice what he calls the "no-plowing, no-fertilizing, no-weeding, no-pesticides, do-nothing method of natural farming".
		Fukuoka was born in 1914 and schooled in the Western sciences of microbiology and plant pathology.
		Masanobu Fukuoka got his inspiration from healthy forests where the soil is fertile and trees are healthy.
	www.sakthifoundation.org /farming.htm (406 words)

	1988 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Masanobu Fukuoka
		MASANOBU FUKUOKA was born on the Japanese island of Shikoku on 2 February 1913.
		All of this convinced FUKUOKA that modern man was suffering from a pervasive spiritual decay, a barrenness of the soul caused by his lost intimacy with God and nature.
		FUKUOKA believes that Japan is today "so steeped in science that a method of farming which discards science altogether will not be digested." This is why countries like India, which are not fully industrialized and which have large rural populations, offer greater hope for natural farming.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyFukuokaMas.htm (5646 words)

	Special Features
		Masanobu Fukuoka was born in 1914 in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan.
		At the time of his revelation, Fukuoka was living in a Japan that was abandoning its traditional farming methods and adopting Western agriculture, economic and industrial models.
		To Masanobu Fukuoka, raising food is not necessarily the primary goal of farming.
	www.macrobiotics.co.uk /features/masanobufukuoka.htm (851 words)

	Article "The Amazing Natural Farm of Masanobu Fukuoka" by Larry Korn - Mu Landscaping (www.mulandscaping.com)
		Fukuoka's method of farming and conventional agriculture is that he cooperates with nature rather than attempting to "improve" or conquer her.
		Fukuoka's farm is an inspiring, visionary model of what, agriculture should and could be—and if you want to live and farm the same way—your automatic response to the article (right along with ours!) was probably to figure step by step how to put Masanobu's great ideas to work in your fields, orchards, and gardens.
		Furthermore, if Masanobu is right, the knowledge of what is natural for your area and your land will not come from scientific analysis or experimentation...but from living on it for many years, sensing its pulse, and coming to love it even as you realize you can never really understand it.
	www.mulandscaping.com /ArticleTheAmazingNaturalFarmOfMasanobuFukuoka.htm (3444 words)

	Article "Masanobu Fukuoka's Natural Farming and Permaculture" by Larry Korn - Mu Landscaping ...
		Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan.
		What is remarkable is that Fukuoka's natural farming and permaculture should resemble each other so closely despite their nearly opposite approaches.
		Fukuoka believes that natural farming proceeds from the spiritual health of the individual.
	www.mulandscaping.com /ArticleMasanobuFukuokasNaturalFarmingAndPermaculture.htm (1451 words)

	Article "The Plowboy Interview" by Larry Korn - Mu Landscaping (www.mulandscaping.com)
		Masanobu Fukuoka, with his grizzled white beard, subdued voice, and traditional Oriental working clothes, may not seem like an apt prototype of a successful innovative farmer.
		FUKUOKA: After the war there was a massive land reform in Japan—called the Nochi-kaiho—in which large landowners like my father lost most of their holdings.
		Fukuoka, you did a lot of experimenting and research yourself in the process of developing the concept of natural farming.
	www.mulandscaping.com /ArticleThePlowboyInterviewMasanobuFukuoka.htm (6154 words)

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		Fukuoka became disillusioned with this scientific life after several bouts with exhaustion and illness.
		Fukuoka then moved back to his father's tangerine orchard in the country.
		Fukuoka's emphasis is on the return to nature.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Projects/Permaculture/fukuoka.htm (284 words)

	Masanobu Fukuoka - Greening The Desert
		Masanobu Fukuoka is another of the major pioneers of sustainable agriculture who came to the 2nd International Permaculture Conference.
		Masanobu: When I was in Somalia, I thought, if there are ten farmers, one truck, and seeds, then it would be so easy to help the people there.
		Masanobu: No, that is not enough, so I would sow coated seeds so they wouldn't dry out or get eaten by animals.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC14/Fukuoka.htm (1988 words)

	1988 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Masanobu Fukuoka
		Although its high-technology agriculture feeds millions with apparent efficiency, MASANOBU FUKUOKA warns that by disturbing the self-balancing processes of nature, it is also creating weak, chemical-dependent plants and poisoning the land, water, and air.
		There, in the town of Iyo on the southern island of Shikoku, he began living out his newfound insight that "in the world there is nothing at all." As a simple farmer for fifty years he has pursued a near effortless concord between himself and the land.
		In electing MASANOBU FUKUOKA to receive the 1988 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, the Board of Trustees recognizes his demonstration to small farmers everywhere that natural farming offers a practical, environmentally safe, and bountiful alternative to modern commercial practices and their harmful consequences.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Citation/CitationFukuokaMas.htm (509 words)

	Encyclopedia: Masanobu Fukuoka
		Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on ecosystem management and attempts to reduce or eliminate external agricultural inputs, especially synthetic ones.
		Much less seed is used than in conventional growing, giving fewer but larger and stronger plants.
		In Japan, the Fukuoka method has produced similar yields to chemically grown crops and much work has already been done to adapt it to Europe an conditions, including the work of French farmer Marc Bonfils.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Masanobu-Fukuoka (2011 words)

	one-straw revolution - Indymedia Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Photographs of Masanobu Fukuoka Masanobu Fukuoka, with his grizzled white beard, subdued voice, and traditional Oriental working clothes, may not seem like an apt prototype of a successful innovative farmer.
		FUKUOKA: After the war there was a massive land reform in Japan - called the Nochi-kaiho - in which large landowners like my father lost most of their holdings.
		FUKUOKA: Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease, Even when it looked as if something had gone wrong and the crops would soon be devastated, nature always seemed to bail me out in the end!
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?id=22743&start=0 (6553 words)

	Masanobu Fukuoka: On Listening to Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukuoka, who will be 90 this year, was the featured speaker for the Second Country Ocean Festival this autumn which met in Mitaka Public Hall.
		Fukuoka’s talk was followed by a Genmai (Brown Rice) Forum at which a panel of farmers, environmentalists, and cooks discussed ways to change society peacefully and safeguard personal and planetary health.
		Fukuoka observed, "I am against genetically modified (GM) crops because time is necessary for the natural evolution of species.
	www.amberwaves.org /web_articles/fukuoka.html (634 words)

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		Born in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan in 1914, Masanobu Fukuoka was trained in microbiology as a plant pathologist.
		Fukuoka has learned how plants can grow naturally and vigorously with little or no human effort.
		Fukuoka's methods have also been used to green the deserts, with the use of seed balls.
	organic.com.au /books/TheNaturalWayOfFarming (179 words)

	Books The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukuoka thought that by putting the subjects of his questions into actual material challenges he might find the answers he sought.
		Fukuoka states that natural farming is not just a method of agricultural production but it is a way of life.
		However, Fukuoka should be set apart from farming in general and Permaculture in particular, in that The One-Straw Revolution is essentially a profound work of literary philosophy.
	www.siproducts.com /CHeaPItemLookup/DealS0878572201 (507 words)

	ScienceDaily: Masanobu fukuoka
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	Masanobu Fukuoka: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Masanobu Fukuoka (福岡正信), born 1914, author of The One-Straw Revolution and The Natural Way Of Farming, is one of the pioneers of no-till (no-till: no-till farming is a way of growing crops from year to year without disturbing the soil...
		There is no plow (plow: A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing) ing, as the seed (seed: A small hard fruit) germinates (germinates: in a botanical sense, germination is the process of emergence of growth from a resting stage....
		But the vast majority of this grain goes to feed animal (animal: A living organism characterized by voluntary movement) s, which could be more efficiently fed by diverse forage (forage: The act of searching for food and provisions) systems.
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