Scientific and epistemological basis for Syntropic Farming

Abstract

Syntropic Farming, of recent notoriety, attracts the attention of many people for proposing a
special worldview for the processes of nature. Apparently defending a teleological interpretation
of phenomena such as ecological succession and employing functional group variants to
structure agroforestry systems (SAFs), this line gets close to a series of works of nonequilibrium
thermodynamics. With the objective of critically supporting this form of agriculture and
the philosophy that surrounds it, this work makes an extensive bibliographical review connecting
the epistemological, physical and ecological debates that surround it and that still difficult
to access due to its complex and transdisciplinary characteristics. Among the results that can
be gathered from this debate are an adaptation in the teaching of the natural sciences, a contribution
to the environmental problem and a call to re-enchantment in scientific production.