Most of the food, a majority, is grown at the Forest-River-Ocean and the surrounding environments. Furthermore, the food is not something that suddenly appeared in the world, it already existed when people began living in each region. Because there was food, people could live there. That is to say, it was grown within a spatial-temporal relationship. That idea is called Food Intrinsic Value. Food is a point of contact between humans and nature. Originally, eating food was accompanied by an experience. Through the experience, we were able to understand what type of connection the food had.
However, in present times, we buy almost all of our food at places like supermarkets. The original experiences we had to learn about food have vanished, and we often choose food based on the apparent value of its appearance, advertisements, marketing, etc. Resultantly, we no longer understand the original value of food, nor do we understand the spatial-temporal relationship between people and the Forest-River-Ocean. That situation will cause the ruin of peoples' diets, and bring about damage to health, excessive competition, depopulation and aging in agricultural regions, and environmental destruction. In this presentation, I will introduce how to enhance FIV through Aquatic Marine Environmental Education in watershed area for establishing a resilient and sustainable society.
