Gonzalo Dapra, of Friends of the Earth Argentina, explained this at the launching of the campaign on August 6 in Ituzaingo, a neighborhood of Cordoba.

Dapra mentioned this is a continental campaign that has had important progress in Brazil: “The campaign is both an educational space, but also a space for permanent mobilization. We also have a legal aspect to contribute to the campaign in the medium to long term”, he said.

Friends of the Earth Argentina, together with the Latin American Coordination of Countryside Organizations (CLOC-Vía Campesina) and Grain organized the launching of the campaign that will comprise different groups that have been resisting in Argentina.
Gonzalo said that doing a national campaign is the result of the coordination between different national and local organizations.

Meanwhile, Margarita, a member of the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE) said the campaign would cover three areas: human health, environment and economic impacts of the massive use of agrotoxics.

These are part of the productive model that displace peasants, cause unemployment and poverty in populated areas in the big green soya desert, which in Argentina covers an area of 16 million hectares.