Miriam Otxotorena, pastor and representative of the entities, claimed during the demonstration that took place in Pamplona that “another agricultural model is possible.”
A dozen of them agricultural entities They demonstrated this Saturday Pamplona to demand a change in the agricultural model and defend that there are alternatives, to achieve food sovereignty.
The demonstration, which included animals, started from the Plaza de la Constitución and ended at the Plaza del Castillo.
Miriam Otxotorena, pastor and representative of the entities, has claimed in statements to the media that “a different agricultural model it is possible”.
‘We urgently need an agro-ecological transition food sovereignty in Navarre because industrial and intensive agriculture and livestock farming have increased exponentially in recent years and we are demonstrating against that model and saying that there are alternatives to that toxic and polluting model,” he added.
To do this, they have the reduction of pesticides and inorganic fertilizers, that no more activity permits will be granted to macro farms and that by 2030 this existing herd will be reduced by 50%.
Moreover, they believe it is necessary for the subsidies to be distributed in a different way, ‘to help this transition’. “We also ask that short circuits be encouraged and that consumption and distribution models be changed. Small producers face difficulties in running our markets and that Navarrese consumers can consume agro-ecological products produced in Navarre.”
Source: EITB
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