Masanobu Fukuoka Talks About the One Straw Revolution

I once met Masanobu Fukuoka, at an event at Waseda University, in 1995. My Japanese was not good then, and neither was course, he spoke with a storybook country farmer accent. It didn’t matter though that I couldn’t understand his words. Maybe it was just his long white beard, or his faith in his cause: he was glowing like a prophet, and beautiful. Now he has gone, but we are all lit up by him still. Meet Masanobu Fukuoka, the Author of ’The One-Straw Revolution’, and the originator of Natural or ’do-nothing’ farming. This 1975 documentary shows interviews of the then 65 year old farmer-philosopher, who shares his techniques behind his farming success, and the philosophy that underpins it all. “The ultimate purpose of farming is not the cultivation of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of the human being“ In 1988, Fukuoka was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay prize, known as the Asian Nobel Peace Prize, for his services to humanity