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Climate Smart Agriculture – Alternative Manure Management Program

The Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap and Trade dollars to work reducing GHG emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment. The AMMP … Continue reading

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California and France Announce Soil Health Commitment at the Global Climate Action Summit

Today, at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, the government of California announced the launch of a Global Soil Health Challenge in partnership with France. The challenge calls on governments across the world – both national and sub-national … Continue reading

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Climate Smart Agriculture – SWEEP saves water, reduces greenhouse gas emissions

One of the Climate Smart Agriculture programs operated by CDFA and up for discussion at this week’s Global Climate Action Summit is the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP). This program is one of several at CDFA supported by … Continue reading

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Climate Smart Agriculture and California’s Healthy Soils Initiative

The discussions underway at the Scaling-up Climate Smart Agriculture and Global Climate Action Summit events this week include the critical importance of healthy soils. California’s Healthy Soils Initiative is a collaboration of state agencies and departments, led by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, … Continue reading

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CDFA Secretary Karen Ross calls on Ag Stakeholders to step-up as climate events begin

   

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Video – Cow power key component in Climate Smart Agriculture

With Scaling-up Climate Smart Agriculture and Global Climate Action Summit events taking place this week in Northern California, CDFA offers this encore presentation from its award-winning Growing California video series. “Cow Power” is the story of an anaerobic digester in … Continue reading

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CDFA Takes Action to the Next Level with ‘Scaling-Up Climate Smart Agriculture’ two-day event in Sonoma and Marin Counties

On September 11-12th CDFA will bring together state and local government leaders, businesses, and citizens from around the world to share innovative and transformative achievements related to climate health and food production. The Scaling-Up Climate Smart Agriculture event connects farmers and ranchers; … Continue reading

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Governor Brown Takes Action to Protect California’s Plants, Animals and Unique Biodiversity

  Just days before the world comes to San Francisco to collaborate on ways to protect the environment, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has signed an executive order to safeguard California’s unique plants, animals and ecosystems which are threatened by … Continue reading

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Considering the Global Climate Action Summit and its connection to the year 2020, an urgent milestone for the planet – from BrinkNews.com

Note – CDFA and its secretary, Karen Ross, will be participants at next week’s Global Climate Action Summit, where a number of key sustainability issues across multiple sectors will be addressed. Part of the agency’s involvement is hosting partner events … Continue reading

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Video – CDFA’s plant and pest scientists at work

At CDFA’s Plant Pest Diagnostics lab in South Sacramento, scientists work long hours identifying invasive species–pests and diseases–that threaten California’s environment and food supply. Examples of these would be exotic fruit flies as well as the Asian citrus psyllid and … Continue reading

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