California must abandon 535,000 acres of prized farmland to meet water conservation goals

A new report says saving the state’s aquifers will mean letting cropland go fallow—a worst-case scenario for growers in the San Joaquin Valley.

Source: California must abandon 535,000 acres of prized farmland to meet water conservation goals

(Sam BLOCH, The New Food Economy; February 28, 2019)

Featured Research Publication:

Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley (HANAK et al., 2019)

https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/water-and-the-future-of-the-san-joaquin-valley-february-2019.pdf