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Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

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Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. When it comes to water use, precision agriculture can help farmers determine what is best for their own land—which may differ from what their neighbors need.

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How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires

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But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Where do those water diversions stand today?