Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These methods include wide row spacing, planting multiple seeds per hole, and planting drought-tolerant varieties of seeds. Our seeds have been adapted for over 3,000 years to be raised with little moisture.” For him, agricultural resilience in the West means less manipulation of the environment.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 14, 2025

She talked about the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protest slogan Water is Life, and how that moment of championing clean water rights lifted many tribal voices protecting our waters throughout Turtle Island (The Americas). The work she does is a personal imperative as much as a professional one.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Today, Walmart’s public relations efforts combine with the activities of Walton charities and investments in a sprawling buffet of corporate promising, donations, and seed capital directed at a range of social and environmental issues affected by the largest retailer in the world. Some are, in their own right, vast enterprises.

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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But the valley’s irrigation outlook is dire: Water withdrawn by wells exceeds the amount of snowmelt refilling aquifers, and there are more claims to water rights than there is water in streams. This legal assistance project paired farmers with law students to formalize verbal water-sharing agreements into bylaws.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Indeed, the need for support for local journalism is so acute that a coalition of philanthropies recently came together to seed a $500 million effort called Press Forward to put more reporters in underserved communities. The Waltons have no intention of buying water rights so that the river can have more water.

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