The candidacy proposes to facilitate the transfer of abandoned farms and open more opportunities for the island's products.
Initiative for La Gomera (IxLG) defends measures to support family farming, livestock and artisanal fishing as essential activities for the local economy. Its program includes facilitating the transfer of abandoned farms and promoting the public purchase of food produced on the island for dining rooms, residences and other services, with the purpose of connecting local production with institutional consumption.
The candidacy considers that maintaining primary activity contributes to sustaining employment, knowledge and daily life in the towns. The recovery of unused plots can facilitate new productive opportunities, as long as it is accompanied by conditions that allow the land to be worked. IxLG proposes that public policies be closer to the needs of those who produce and the specific difficulties of doing so on a non-capital island.
The public purchase of local foods appears in the program as a tool to promote proximity circuits. The training proposes that, within the framework applicable to public procurement, services that serve food can evaluate formulas that facilitate the access of local producers to that demand. With this, it aims to strengthen the relationship between economic activity, public services and products of the territory. «Defending the countryside, livestock and artisanal fishing is also defending our towns. If we want there to be activity, we must facilitate the use of farms and open opportunities for food from La Gomera to reach public services," says Raquel Correa Marichal, first substitute for the Senate candidacy for IxLG.
IxLG incorporates this line into its objective of building a productive and well-kept island. The candidacy defends that state action must support, within its powers, an economic model that does not depend on a single activity and that allows maintaining the link between those who produce, the services that serve the population and the territory.
