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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock.

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NSAC Heads to the Rockies – A Summer Meeting Recap

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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. A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St. In the Q&A portion, Rep.

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In California, a native people fight to recover their stolen waters

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

Civil Eats

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” Take California’s almond industry, a water-intensive crop.

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