Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka

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. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming". Fukuoka was the author of several books, scientific papers and other publications, and was featured in television documentaries and interviews from the 1970s onwards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masanobu Fukuoka has received more than 662,122 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Masanobu Fukuoka is the 367th most popular philosopher (down from 360th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Japan (down from 127th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Philosopher.

Masanobu Fukuoka is most famous for his book "The One-Straw Revolution" in which he explains his philosophy of natural farming. He believes that the most effective way to farm is to create a system that mimics nature.