By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in...
By Siddharth Kishore, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Cory L. Struthers, Scott MacKenzie, and Matthew S. Shugart, Giannini Foundation Of Agricultural Economics We examine spatial and temporal trends in crop-specific land-use decisions at the parcel level by land capability class—land quality—in...
A new study finds that the state should replenish groundwater aquifers to sustain agriculture By Caroline Marshall Reinhart, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the...
One of the main challenges of irrigating crops is that available water sources contain salt. Over time, repeated waterings from these sources lead to salt accumulation, damaging soil fertility. This issue is especially acute in the arid and semi-arid regions...
Report Focuses on Results from 2023 Water Year Press release from the Delta Conservancy: The Delta Conservancy has released a final report on outcomes of the 2023 Delta Drought Response Pilot Program, an experimental program that was launched in order...
