HULOC PROJECT
(Humanitarian Logistics Campus)

          Subsistence Logistics is the combination of both concepts: Logistics and Subsistence.
 In the beginning of the human history the subsistence was local. No movement of products. When the groups started to use the animals for transportation, we began the change of products among groups in different regions. Subsistence is surviving actions, logistics is a mix of management and technology. That is why we call this type of campus as Subsistence Logistics.
          Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficient farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed the family and to pay taxes or feudal dues. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to eat during the year. Planting decisions are made with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, rather than market prices.
          Subsistence farming typically uses few fertilizers and no machines. Instead the farmers may use draft animals which can be fed and raised on the farm.
          A subsistence economy is an economy in which a group attempts to produce no more output per period than they must consume in that period in order to survive, but do not attempt to accumulate wealth or to transfer productivity from one period to the next. In such a system, a concept of wealth may not exist, and there is a reliance on renewal and reproduction within the natural environment.
          The word "logistics" is derived from the Greek adjective logistikos meaning "skilled in calculating. I understand that it may confuse the people, however, the word logistics now has a new concept.
          The first administrative use of the word logistics was in Roman and Byzantine times when there was a military administrative official with the title Logista. At that time, the word apparently implied a skill involved in mathematical computations, but it is much more than this.
          Research indicates that its first use in relation to an organized military administrative science was by the Swiss writer, Antoine-Henri Jomini, who, in 1838, devised a theory of war on the trinity of strategy, ground tactics, and logistics. The French still use the words logistique and loger (lodge) with the meaning "to quarter."
The military activity known as logistics probably is as old as war itself. In the early history of man when the first wars were fought, each man had to find his own food, stones, and knotted clubs. This is the second phase of the logisticas history. The first one was the subsistence.
          Lia is developing the Humanitarian Logistics Campus – HULOC activities since 2004. This is now an association with Lia, Catholic University/ Brasilia and Georgetown University (Washington, D.C. – USA) and are developing an international humanitarian project.