C’est ce qu’écrit le sage Masanobu Fukuoka dans son ouvrage La Révolution d’un seul brin de paille, que j’invite instamment chacun à découvrir. C’est le livre le plus sage qu’il m’ait été donné de lire. Ce livre détaille l’expérience de Fukuoka dans l’agriculture naturelle au Japon de 1935 à 1978, période durant laquelle le Japon a introduit les

Another agricultural benefit is that herbicide-resistant soybean has helped foster use of low-till and no-till agriculture, which leaves the fertile topsoil intact and protects it from being removed by wind or rain. Also because tractor-tilling is minimized, less fuel is consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are reduced

This is why Howard spent so much time studying peasant agricultural systems in India and elsewhere: The best ones survived as long as they did because they brought food forth from the same ground year after year without depleting the soil.