Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Water Adaptation In the desert, getting water to crops often requires irrigation. billion in payments from the agency’s crop insurance program).

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Farming Farming Crop Acre 142

Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). As these maps of historic sugarcane lands and pineapple lands illustrate, the two crops covered vast portions of West Maui.

Plantation 98

Plantation Agriculture Agriculture Ecology 98

Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

On June 15, the State Water Resources Control Board told 4,300 users to stop diverting water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta Watershed (3). Agribusiness and large farms can often adapt to drought either by purchasing water, drilling deeper wells to pump groundwater, changing crops or fallowing fields. She farms 1.5

Family Farming 52

Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

Caraveo responded to questions about some of the barriers producers face in accessing federal programs and what is being done to address water rights, particularly for young farmers and farmers of color. Caraveo has a strong interest in community health, child nutrition, addressing food instability, and looking at “food as medicine.”

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Water Rights Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But there’s much more to be done, and quickly, especially in the arid western United States, where water use is extremely high—and climate change and drought are increasing pressure on a region that already uses a tremendous amount of water. What kind of crops are we going to grow?” What kind of crops are we going to grow?

Water Rights 135

Water Rights Agriculture Agriculture Crop 135

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

His strategy, he believed, would help the Nüümü win back their water in one clever move—and upend California’s arcane and inequitable water rights system along the way. For the Nüümü, the water war started in the 1800s, with the arrival of white people in their homeland.

Water Rights 139

Water Rights Ranching Cattle Ecology 139

Daily Yonder

APRIL 18, 2023

All three of these states, plus Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota, overlap the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground layer of water that irrigates about 30% of the total crop and animal production in the United States, according to the U.S. One is to rethink the way water is used and land is managed.

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Ruralism Water Rights Production Agriculture 52