Speakers - AFHWC2025

Abstract

In addition to the capability of making artifacts, human beings are capable of creating narrations that are used as a tool to create or reform reality or to give meaning to activities. The European Land Grab era deluding narrations were employed to ensure resource accumulation for elites within the core region. Doctrine of “Infinite Expansion” as another narration aimed at believing the availability of energy and resources along with the legitimacy of competition for private benefits,

Anthropocentric classical reductionist thinking (as a narration) considered nature as a closed system that strives to exist in one mature condition in permanence. post-industrial “Free Market Economy” used a sophisticated semiotic of signs and symbols for constant advertisements paving the path towards infinit expansion of production and trade at global scale. For globalization the post-industrial economy replaced tributary and use of arms respectfully by trade and taxation.

Modern agriculture was aimed at land reforms for extensive mechanized monoculture that expected to improve familly farming production (vaccinated against communism)  but more so to increase global trade in favor of neo-liberal expansionism. Unaware of decisive role of the socio-ecological context and neglecting choric interactions it only      resulted to costly food bubbles in many countries facing social disparity and malnutrition.

The basic question of human comprehension regarding the provision of needs remains unresolved at a global scale. Human spatial existence remains unattended by being dependent on administration and technology defined by corporates and banking systems because provision of basic needs and human-nature interactions is at local community level.

Nature is now viewed as more than the sum of its individual parts (patches) whose dynamics operates at and between few different spatial scales. The non-equilibrium patch dynamic demonstrates how integrity at the landscape level depends on the presence of heterogenous patches inter-connected for mutually beneficial exchanges.

Traditional farming systems is based on what has been revealed by nature and is based on ecological resilience instead of engineering resilience. “Nature or Landscape Husbandry,” if equipped with more efficient artefacts and integrated within the global economy, responds to the present global human needs while ensuring global socio-ecological resilience.

The same banks and corporates who created the tragedy of global common resources may be employed to function as networks of financial support and technical exchange among global local communities (through clouds). Furthermore, accumulation of observations and exchange of experiences at global level offers new emerging knowledge for further improvements in not only provision of food but also in regard to cultural and economic aspects of human ecology including effective negative feedbacks against global shift.