by Andrew McFarland | Jan 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Within our first week at the Asian Rural Institute (ARI), we were taken on a tour of the Nasu canal and learned of its importance. The Nasu canal provides accessible water to the adjacent Nasu plain which enables farmers to irrigate and farm the land. But this was not...
by Avery Liang | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has already been two weeks since we started our program. In recent days we spent most of time at ARI where we learnt about the natural agriculture contributed to the foodlife works of there. We did chores in the morning and afternoon, receive lectures from Yukiko...
by legiga1 | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I think about Japan, one of the first things that cross my mind is nature. From what I heard and what I saw in the past, I always had in mind that nature was embedded in the Japanese culture and that the people in the country had a healthy relationship with...
by Peter Reynolds | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
After going to the see the Nasau Canal today, I found myself thinking a lot about the contrasting examples we have looked at so far involving environmental engineering to alter the land in a specific area. The Nasau Canal was made by pure human-power, and was done so...
by bird1 | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
In his novel, The One Straw Revolution, Masaba Fukuoka takes a critical view on the role of complex anthropogenic progress throughout history, remarking that it leads to unnecessary, and often inefficient, results. Focussing primarily on agriculture, but critiquing...
by Eleanor Wilson | Jan 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
Contrasting Approaches to Agriculture: Where Do We Devote Our Creative Energy? There are few things more satisfying than solving a particularly difficult problem, but how do we decide which problems to tackle and which to leave untouched? Where do we decide to...
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