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

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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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Scaling Up Climate Smart Agriculture: a “California Conversation” brings leaders, innovators together

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

The Global Climate Action Summit is September 12-14 in San Francisco. The affiliated Scaling Up Climate Smart Agriculture Event in Sonoma County is connecting climate stakeholders including farmers and ranchers, multinational corporations, foreign governments and non-governmental organizations to further the role of agriculture in climate … Continue reading →

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Climate Smart Agriculture and California’s Healthy Soils Initiative

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

   

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Video – Cow power key component in Climate Smart Agriculture

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

  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

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

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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UC Davis has encouraging early research findings on cows, seaweed and methane – from the Associated Press via OCRegister.com

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Office of Public Affairs

By Terrence Chea University of California researchers are feeding seaweed to dairy cows in an attempt to make cattle more climate-friendly. UC Davis is studying whether adding small amounts of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce their emissions of … Continue reading →

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