Tomorrow, Saturday, March 24th, at 10 AM, on Place Masséna on the other side of Albert 1er Garden, activists will sow some hardy seeds.
- Why?
The goal is to draw the attention of the media and passersby to agricultural and environmental issues, which were largely ignored during the 2012 presidential campaign. Contrary to the commercialization of living organisms promoted by the right-wing, the FNSEA, and seed lobbies, environmentalists stress the urgency of adopting a new agricultural model. Intensive agriculture is not viable in the long term: it causes air, soil, and water pollution, poses health risks to farmers and consumers, leads to the drying up and depletion of farmland, etc.
- What do environmentalists propose?
In response to this phenomenon, it is time to support the transition to small-scale and localized farming. Public authorities should particularly assist in the establishment and conversion of farms to organic agriculture. The principle of free exchange and cultivation of native seeds must also be enshrined in law to protect society from the monopoly of a few multinationals over living organisms.
- And in Nice?
In Nice, agricultural and environmental topics concern the entire population. In an increasingly urbanized environment, environmentalists believe that subsistence agriculture needs to be preserved, as well as cultivable spaces in the city, such as community gardens, social reintegration gardens, educational gardens, etc. In this context, conducting a guerrilla gardening action at the site of the future “green corridor” in the city center makes perfect sense: the challenge is to provide green spaces for the entire city, not just for the aesthetic enhancement of the center, and to carry the demand from neighborhoods and associations for shared gardens, which are true socially and ecologically beneficial living spaces.
