Abstract

CHILON CAMACHO, Eduardo. The "Living Soü" Paradigm. Apthapi [online]. 2018, vol.4, n.2, pp. 1188-1211. ISSN 0102-0304.

The "Living Soil" Paradigm sustains and grounds that its microbiota and its systemic world are not part of the soil, but are the soil itself; takes as a basis the holistic thinking of millenary peoples and the findings of the research-action hendeistics of high Andean composting analogous to the "Living Soil", scientifically demonstrating that the soil is a "living entity", and that the soil manifests its activities vital through homeostasis, autopoiesis, consciousness manifestation, metabolism and microbial biosynthesis and food requirement. It is verified that the "Living Ground" is an open system, which requires "feeding" with adequate organic fertilizers, to ensure a continuous flow of energy and matter, and to stay alive; It is noted that the irrational use of agrochemicals, pesticides and other pollutants of agricultural exports threaten the life of the soil. The "Living Soil" Paradigm breaks into a problematic context of global climate change, the degradation of agricultural soils and economic and environmental crises, advocating the change of current conventional agriculture, and the technologies of the "green revolution", that affect and threaten the life of the soil, and that must be replaced by synergistic knowledge and technologies. The "Living Soil" Paradigm constitutes a fundamental strategic contribution to structural actions that guarantee sustainable agriculture, the recovery and preservaron of agricultural land, and the survival and perpetuation of the human species.

Keywords : Agricultural soils; epistemology of soil science; ancestral knowledge in the Andes; conventional agriculture; Andean classification of soils; Génesis and soil classification; living soil paradigm; agricultural microbiology; climate change and agriculture; homeostasis and soil autopoiesis; high Andean composting and organic fertilizers.