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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. Caraveo has a strong interest in community health, child nutrition, addressing food instability, and looking at “food as medicine.”

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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.