Terraquaculture

Farming Living Water Flowing Through the Landscape

Resources

Films

Lessons of the Loess Plateau (52 min.) Documents the huge ecological restoration project in the Loess Plateau, China. Summarizing the main principles of terraqueous farming. Directed by John D. Liu, 2007.
Hope in a Changing Climate (22 min.) 2009 documentary that looks at the eco-system restoration on the Loess Plateau and related projects in Ethiopia and Rawanda. Directed by Jeremy Bristow and presented by John D. Liu.
Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Gardens (2004, 50 min.) Directed by Masumi Mizunuma and narrated by David Attenborough. "Imagine a realm where the season’s rhythms rule, where centuries of agriculture and fishing have reshaped the land, yet where people and nature remain in harmony....Over a thousand years, towns and villages have developed a unique system to make springs and water part of their homes... They are exceptional environments essential to both the people who maintain them and to the wildlife that now share them."
The Back to Nature Garden (25 min) 1981 documentary about the natural farming philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka. "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

Bibliography

Adachi, Shimpei. Agricultural Technologies of Terraced Rice Cultivation in the Ailao Mountains, Yunnan, China. (Asian and African Area Studies, 6 (2): 173-196, 2007)
Andrews, Peter. Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape can be Saved. (Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006).
Andrews, Peter. Beyond the Brink: Peter Andrews' Radical Vision for a Sustainable Australian Landscape. (Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2008).
Fukuoka, Masanobu. The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy. (Japan Publications, 1985).
Fukuoka, Masanobu. The Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost. (Japan Publications, 1987).
Fukuoka, Masanobu. One Straw Revolution (Rodale, 1978; Other India Press, 2004; New York Review of Books, 2009).
McNeely, J. and Scherr, S. Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity. (London: Island Press, 2003).
Tane, Haikai. The Crucial Roles of Willows in Sustainable River Management. (Twizel: Watershed Foundation, 2010).
Tane, Haikai. Fantastic Workers of the Terrain. (National Organisation for Sustainable Development).
Tane, Haikai. Infrastructures and Ecostructures. (Planning Quarterly, September 2004).

Audio

Haikai Tane interview 2009 (ABC Radio, Australia)
Haikai Tane interview 2010: Terraquaculture (Access Radio, Taranaki)
Regan Pryor interview 2010: Opportunities for Maori land (Access Radio, Taranaki)
Dion Workman interview 2011: Natural farming in Philippines and Japan (Access Radio, Taranaki)

Links

Fukuoka Farming List Discussion list about the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and natural farming.

Shikigami Shikigam blog about natural farming/terraquaculture, forests, wild foods, fermentation etc.

Greencloak practicing terraquaculture and permaculture in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Living Water Foundation A community and regional development organization founded by Haikai Tane.

Natural Sequence Farming website of Australian natural farmer Peter Andrews.

Natural Farming Center Fukuoka style natural farming project based in Greece.

OneStrawRevolution.net Website of Larry Korn, one of the translators of Masanobu Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution (1978). Podcasts, videos, photo's...

Satoyama Initiative Joint initiative of the Japanese Ministry for the Environment and the United Nations University Insitute of Advanced Studies. "The vision of the Satoyama Initiative is to realise societies in harmony with nature, comprising human communities where the maintenance and development of socio-economic activities (including agriculture and forestry) align with natural processes."

Watershed Systems Ltd Training and research centre headed by Haikai Tane.