Agriculture

The Coastal Commission has approved and amended dozens of permits for aquaculture operations, including seven seaweed farms.

Making a comparison as a measure of the worth for agriculture in California is one-dimensional, inequitable and short-sighted.

Despite the demand for giant kelp, an environmentally friendly product, California prohibits new seaweed cultivation projects.

Water is a public resource that’s vital to ecosystem and community health, and Big Ag should be regulated to ensure its usage is efficient.

We cannot accommodate serious discussion on the demand side of water questions without working on the supply side.

The bill would help promote drought resiliency, adjust to climate change and keep California’s food supply safe.

Water banking and trading are essential tools for managing the state’s groundwater, and we urgently need to make them work better.

Unfortunately, California’s approach to setting mandates to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left agriculture to become collateral damage.

AB 616 will go a long way toward ensuring that farmworkers can decide, by free and fair elections, whether they wish to join a union.

State and local governments must change housing law and zoning rules to move toward permanently housing unsheltered Californians.