Ecological Farming

a conversation with Fukuoka, Jackson and Mollison

Abstract

In 1986, in the United States of America, the 2nd International Conference on Permaculture took place, which provided an extraordinary meeting between some of the most fruitful thinkers of the global movement for regenerative agriculture. On that occasion, a conversation was recorded between: Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008), Japanese elder, microbiologist, practitioner of wild agriculture; Wes Jackson (1936), American cowboy, geneticist with his perennial agriculture; and Bill Mollison (1928-2016), rebellious Australian gardener, biogeographer, co-creator of Permaculture. The manuscript portrays the historic meeting, and presents an unusual interview between these important farmers - researchers, who are fundamental in the process of epistemological rupture under a science with holistic basis.