Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems - HLPE-FSN consultation on the scope of the report

The initiative within the framework of knowledge transfer and cooperation between concerned people and institutions about many of the problems of difficult settlement in today’s world encompasses crucial questions regarding the Anthropocene and the present cultural, political, economic and environmental crises worldwide. 

The focus should not be on the “bubbles” of the surface (problems on their own), but on the configurations deep inside the “boiling pot” where the problems emerge. Instead of dealing with the bubbles (segmented, reduced issues) and trying to solve isolated and localized problems without addressing the general phenomenon, problems should be defined and dealt with deep inside the “boiling pot”, encompassing the current “world-system” with its boundaries, structures, techno-economic paradigms, support groups, rules of legitimization, and coherence. In the socio-cultural learning niches, heuristic-hermeneutic experiences could generate awareness, interpretation and understanding beyond established stereotypes, from a thematic (“what” is at stake), an epistemic (“how” to understand and define the events) and a strategic (who, when, where) point of view. 

Evaluation and planning, advocacy, communication, public policies, research and teaching programmes should combine all dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they intertwine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits/assets), cope with consequences (desired/undesired) and contribute for change (potential outputs).

References:

PILON, A. F. (2024). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Course on Environmental Capacity Building [ppt presentation] Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381996602_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Course_on_Environmental_Capacity_Building 

PILON, A. F., Reframing Relationships between Humans and the Earth: The "Anthropocene", a New Ideology to Justify the Status Quo? MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2023. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/119041/1/MPRA_paper_119041.pdf 

PILON, A. F. (2024). "The Party of the Dead": a Tale that Repeats Itself, MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/121869/1/MPRA_paper_121869.pdf

 

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