Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Every year, our community recognizes amazing farms, individuals and local businesses making a difference in our food system. He is also on the CAFF Policy Committee and a member of Black Farmers Rising, a burgeoning statewide Black Farmer and Food Activist organizing group. We can’t wait to see what she does next!

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Compaction directly reduces water infiltration, space for soil organisms to live, and space to hold air. This affects everything soil life needs to survive because it needs air, water, food, and somewhere to live. The remaining 50% should be space for air and water.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

At more than 5,000 feet above sea level and with its endless opportunities for outdoor adventure and good food, Boulder was the perfect backdrop to get down to coalition business. She discussed some of the challenges in her district and elsewhere as it becomes increasingly difficult to produce good food. As a pediatrician, Rep.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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.” food system. Like Uber, AcreTrader makes it easier for more buyers to gain quick access to an ordinarily expensive asset.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We also won the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020, and a 2022 IACP Award for best newsletter for our members-only monthly column, The Deep Dish. We don’t just ask the hard questions, we also report on the positive changes being made in the American food system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Fort Peck Tribes and the USFWS were concerned about their respective water levels and how they’d be impacted by irrigation. Reiten says the USFWS was objecting to just about every water rights case that went to the state at the time, and all that litigation ended up in water court.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 11 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The agriculture chapter notes that all dimensions of food security will be affected by climate change and that crop insurance costs have already risen in response to increased losses. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. will leave the area increasingly vulnerable.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Following the 2002 drought, farmers voluntarily created seven governing bodies , called water subdistricts, in the hopes of replenishing two aquifers that make growing food viable here in North America’s largest high-altitude desert. The expanse is among the most densely irrigated regions on Earth. Many are not replenishable.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s—and the world’s—food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 1, 2023

To protect these waterways, Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, giving the Environmental Protection Agency oversight in protecting the country’s bodies of water, including wetlands, underground aquifers, and diverted surface water. But with these safeguards came a cost.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Meanwhile, local communities are engaged in an ongoing battle for water rights as the residents of Hawaii look toward rebuilding. Civil Eats spoke with Noa Lincoln , an assistant professor of Indigenous crops and cropping systems at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, about water diversion, deforestation, and Big Ag’s impact on Maui.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Small farmers who scrambled to adapt and supply healthy, local food when the pandemic shuttered restaurants and dining halls are once again facing enormous challenges. 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).

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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.

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