Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019). Translated title: Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2019, no. 12: Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019).

Abstract

Between 1999 and 2019, a conflict to define technological change based in Environmental Sustainability criteria in agriculture arose in Galicia, Spain. Spanish government required to change the spread of slurry tank systems to the injection slurry tank systems in order to grant CAP aid. In this article, we explain how the situation involved the environmental regulations from the European Union, the Spanish Government, and Galician cattle farmers. Finally, we make a general reflection on the limitations of the environmental sustainability paradigm and the technological change effects in twenty-first-century agriculture.