scholarly journals California agriculture weathers drought — at a cost

Nature ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 526 (7571) ◽  
pp. 14-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Check Hayden
Keyword(s):  
California Agriculture

scholarly journals Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture: A Detailed Review

Agronomy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapan Pathak ◽  
Mahesh Maskey ◽  
Jeffery Dahlberg ◽  
Faith Kearns ◽  
Khaled Bali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Detailed Review ◽  
California Agriculture

California is a global leader in the agricultural sector and produces more than 400 types of commodities. The state produces over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. Despite being highly productive, current and future climate change poses many challenges to the agricultural sector. This paper provides a summary of the current state of knowledge on historical and future trends in climate and their impacts on California agriculture. We present a synthesis of climate change impacts on California agriculture in the context of: (1) historic trends and projected changes in temperature, precipitation, snowpack, heat waves, drought, and flood events; and (2) consequent impacts on crop yields, chill hours, pests and diseases, and agricultural vulnerability to climate risks. Finally, we highlight important findings and directions for future research and implementation. The detailed review presented in this paper provides sufficient evidence that the climate in California has changed significantly and is expected to continue changing in the future, and justifies the urgency and importance of enhancing the adaptive capacity of agriculture and reducing vulnerability to climate change. Since agriculture in California is very diverse and each crop responds to climate differently, climate adaptation research should be locally focused along with effective stakeholder engagement and systematic outreach efforts for effective adoption and implementation. The expected readership of this paper includes local stakeholders, researchers, state and national agencies, and international communities interested in learning about climate change and California’s agriculture.

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

1989 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 936
Author(s):  
Delber L. McKee ◽  
Sucheng Chan
Keyword(s):  
California Agriculture

Farmworkers in California Agriculture

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin ◽  
Suzanne Vaupel ◽  
Daniel L. Egan
Keyword(s):  
California Agriculture

Learning, Capital Accumulation, and the Transformation of California Agriculture

1995 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. Rhode
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Biological Learning ◽  
California Agriculture

Between 1890 and 1914, California agriculture rapidly shifted from extensive to intensive crops, emerging as one of the world's major suppliers of Mediterranean products. Based on an analysis of new data on price and quantity movements, this article calls into question the traditional emphasis on changes in transportation, water, and labor market conditions as explanations for California's transformation. It argues that increases in fruit supply outpaced increases in demand and that declining farm interest rates and biological learning played crucial, if relatively neglected, roles in the intensification process.

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