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Notable work. 'Holistic Spiritual Farming'. Subhash Palekar (born 2 February 1949) is an Indian agriculturist who practiced and wrote many books about Subhash Palekar Natural Farming (previously called Zero Budget Natural Farming). [1][2] Palekar was born in 1949 [3] in a small village Belora in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in India, and ...
Occupation (s) Agricultural scientist, farmer, author. Known for. Philosophy, natural farming. Notable work. The One-Straw Revolution. Awards. Ramon Magsaysay Award, Desikottam Award, Earth Council Award. Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡 正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and ...
Earl Butz. Earl Lauer " Rusty " [1] Butz (July 3, 1909 – February 2, 2008) was a United States government official who served as the secretary of agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs.
Sir Albert Howard CIE (8 December 1873 – 20 October 1947) was an English botanist.His academic background might have been botany. While working in India he was generally considered a pathologist; this more than likely being the reason for his consistent observations of the value of compost applications being an increase in health (of the whole system).
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (c. 519 – c. 430 BC) was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a famous model of Roman virtue —particularly civic virtue —by the time of the late Republic. Modern historians question some particulars of the story of Cincinnatus that was recounted in Livy 's ...
Louis Hébert (c. 1575 – 25 January 1627) is widely considered the first European apothecary in the region that would later become Canada, as well as the first European to farm in said region. He was born around 1575 at 129 de la rue Saint-Honoré in Paris to Nicolas Hébert and Jacqueline Pajot. He loved another woman but according to his ...
Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago.
Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for a return to subsistence agriculture, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. [1][2] Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity. [3] Agrarian political parties sometimes aim to ...