Feeding the World & Protecting the Planet.
In California, climate-smart agriculture isn’t just a concept.
It is happening.
Save the Planet. Stop Eating.
Unfortunately, we can’t eat our way out of climate change. It is clearly not possible. While farming and food production contributes to overall climate emissions, we can’t simply stop eating! What we can do is work hard to make all food production even more sustainable. That is exactly what California farmers, ranchers, and food producers are doing.
Despite ongoing efforts by farmers and ranchers to improve the carbon and environmental footprints of food production, some anti-farming activists continue to attempt to dictate farming methods and consumer food choices. However, if we have learned anything in the past few difficult years, people don’t want to be told what to do, let alone what to eat. . . or what they can’t eat.
Food is cultural. Food is part of our ethnic backgrounds and family traditions. Food is also comforting to many. The reality is plant and animal-based foods have been part of our diet for centuries and will be for centuries to come. We simply cannot feed a growing national and global population without animal and plant-based foods.
Perspective
Climate change increasingly touches every aspect of modern life. What we drive, how we heat and cool our homes, and what we manufacture, use, and eat all contribute to global warming. Like other major sectors of California’s economy, farming and food production produces greenhouse gases.
For perspective, agriculture accounts for about 8 percent of California’s overall greenhouse gas emissions, trailing industrial, transportation, and energy sector emissions which collectively account for 80 percent. Mitigating agriculture’s contribution, along with all other sectors, remains essential to achieving California’s ambitious climate goals. California’s farming and ranching families take climate change seriously. Our farm families recognize the importance of doing our part to enhance food security and make all food production more sustainable.
Enter the Climate-Smart Agricultural Partnership
Working with local, regional, and state officials and organizations, we aim to:
Further reduce our carbon footprint
Increase productivity and efficiency
Enhance food security
Improve climate resiliency of food production
Our Mission
is to advance climate-smart agricultural practices as we continue to feed the world and protect the planet. Enhanced food security will be critical as global food production will need to dramatically increase in the coming decades to feed a growing world population impacted by climate change.