Since the latter involves so much environmental damage and waste, with no added benefit compared to his way of farming, this caused Fukuoka some serious disillusionment.įukuoka’s farm is an exemplary model of how crops can be grown efficiently and sustainably. Some studies suggest that organic farming can actually produce higher yields than conventional farming. In his classic work The One-Straw Revolution (1975), the Japanese philosopher and farmer Masanobu Fukuoka describes how he developed and implemented many different techniques to grow crops naturally – in harmony with the ecosystem – while achieving similar yields as modern agricultural practices. Instead, we need to grow crops to feed billions of people in a way that is in harmony with the natural world, rather than destroying it. For example, it can’t involve an even bigger reliance on agrochemicals, which are unsustainable. With a rapidly expanding global population, we need to find ways to grow crops in both an efficient and sustainable manner.
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