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The City Council of Totana, with its mayor Juan Jose Canovas at the helm, has made an institutional reception Andalusian historic leader and environmentalist, Francisco Casero Rodriguez, taking advantage of his visit to this town.

Francisco Casero Rodriguez, who currently is president of SAP Foundation, visited Totana during a Conference on Organic Agriculture in Spain and in the Region of Murcia, which has organized today the Agricultural Cooperative of Totana (COATO).

At the reception was also attended by the first deputy mayor, Andrés García Cánovas, COATO president Jose Luis Hernandez Costa, and many members of the Municipal Corporation.

Casero, who is also advisor of honor COATO, has shown for years of their struggle and pacifist commitment to the Andalusian day laborers.

While receiving the participants have glossed the figure of the historic trade union leader and have reviewed their historical and career.

After the reception, they have exchanged

This environmental leader, who was born in Marchena (Sevilla) in 1948, is a historic and crucial figure in the history of Andalusia, so that the lives of the laborers would not be the it is without its struggles and demands.

Similarly, Casero, who was one of the visible heads of the Union Obrero del Campo in Andalusia, has been characterized, in his union career, to promote dozens of hunger strikes and land occupations of landowners to claim employment in rural areas and dignity, honesty and a green future.

He has also tried his fasts and claims to draw attention to the lack of common sense, inequalities and excessive bureaucracy that affects and harms projects and life of citizens.

The Foundation chaired Casero, SAP, has a vocation of service to a compromise in the defense of values ​​in rural areas, promoting and cooperating in the social, economic, heritage, landscape and cultural development;

and improving the quality of people living in it, and promoting progress and the defense of the organic sector.

Also, likewise it pursues the maintenance of sustainable agriculture and livestock with environmental conservation, helping to maintain the territory, biodiversity, self-sufficiency and permanence, to avoid the depopulation of rural areas;

also contributing to smart growth that exceeds the demographic imbalance and inadequate infrastructure and services, to strengthen cultural identity, the interconnection of knowledge and wisdom, and self-esteem of rural society.

Among the purposes of the organization are to promote, promote and cooperate in the social, economic, heritage, landscape and cultural development of rural areas;

promote values ​​of identity, knowledge, wisdom and self-esteem of the rural environment;

encourage environmental protection and organic production and promote research, R & D projects and vocational training.

The attitude of Casero gets more knowledge outside than inside Andalusia.

Victor Seix Institute Polemology Barcelona awarded the international prize Memorial Juan XXIII, in 1992 collected in Bilbao the Anne Frank Award for Culture of Peace and in 1990 its action by proposing measures against erosion, desertification, loss of woodland and abuse of forest resources in the Pact for Nature makes it backer of the European Award for Conservation of Nature, among other awards.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana / Totana.com