Blog: Best practices for just land transitions in California
Unsustainable groundwater overpumping in California has triggered the need to transition hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigated agricultural land into less water-intensive activities to make water use sustainable. … After years of work done by our community of practice and scientists, we just published a much needed and comprehensive framework for best practices in cropland repurposing that can benefit everyone involved. This community of practice includes community leaders, farmer and farmworker advocates, scientists, and practitioners across California’s agricultural regions. … In addition to our recent Roadmap for a Just Land Transition, our team of 54 coauthors (with the help of many collaborators and participants in public events) published a paper introducing a framework for best practices in cropland repurposing in the journal Frontiers in Water. In the next sections of this blog I will briefly summarize some of the most important takeaways from this work.
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