Cultivating climate resilience in California agriculture: Adaptations to an increasingly volatile water future.

ABSTRACT: California agriculture will undergo significant transformations over the next few decades in response to climate extremes, environmental regulation and policy encouraging environmental justice, and economic pressures that have long driven agricultural changes. With several local climates suited to a variety of crops, periodically abundant nearby precipitation, and public investments that facilitated abundant low-priced irrigation water, California hosts one of the most diverse and productive agroecosystems in the world. California farms supply nearly half of the high-nutrient fruit, tree nut, and vegetable production in the United States. Climate change impacts on productivity and profitability of California agriculture are increasing and forebode problems for standard agricultural practic

SUBMITTER: Medellin-Azuara J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11317594 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature