of Ituzaingó regarding the connection between herbicide spraying and the health of the population. Gatica subsequently succeeded in getting a municipal ordinance banning spraying at a distance of fewer than 2,500 meters from dwellings. In 2010, the Supreme Court reversed the burden of proof, according to which the residents no longer have to prove the harmfulness of spraying, but the government and soybean growers must provide proof of safety. Further activities In September 2012, a meeting between the Rhineland-Palatinate Agriculture Minister, Ulrike Höfken, and Gatica took place. It was jointly advocated that the pesticide glyphosate should be re-examined worldwide and that a scientific reassessment of the substance should be requested by independent researchers. In 2013 Gatica campaigned the in the central Argentine province of Córdoba against the construction of a large corn seed processing plant for the Monsanto Group. In September 2013, for example, they organized a blockade of the access road to the planned seed factory, whereupon construction work was stopped. On February 10, 2014, this action, which lasted more than five months, resulted in the Environmental impact assessment submitted by Monsanto for the new factory not being approved by the technical committee of the Ministry of the Environment. In August 2016, a Monsanto employee told the newspaper iProfessional that the company was withdrawing from this project. The reasons he cited were economic developments and the effects of long-term protests by residents. Gatica commented: "If the resistance stirs from below, it will bring down those above". References Date of birth unknown Living people Argentine environmentalists Argentine women environmentalists 1967 births Goldman Environmental Prize awardees