Articles and links
explore farm labor health/safety relationships, guidance on
agricultural labor management and ag labor relations.
Government policy
issues affecting California agriculture
Includes short industry
profiles on important California commodities with an emphasis
on production, marketing, consumption, value added, trade and
price trends for these commodities in the last one to two decades.
The Chineses economic
situation and the implications for California agriculture.
Examines the increasing
threat to California from invading insect, weed and other pests
or animal diseases from outside the state.
Food security may
be defined roughly as reliable access to a nutritionally adequate
diet now and for the future. This page features articles and
publications relating this on state, national and international
levels.
International markets
and trade policy effects on California agriculture.
Farmland Conversion:
the problem and its policy solutions.
Also includes the
National Assessment. An evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness
of the agricultural easement technique for protection of farmland
from urbanization, as implemented by local and state agencies.
Natural Resources
and the Environment: the problem and its policy solutions.
Organic agriculture
in California: statistics and other information.
Crop choice, production,
marketing and other risk factors affecting California agriculture,
and possible mitigating strategies.
Science and technology
changes affecting California agriculture, including agriculture
in an e-commerce world.
Links to our partners
in research.
These links contain
electronic publications and data that have not been published
through AIC, but are related to AIC research areas, in many
cases providing a more detailed and technical analysis of an
important research issue.
Every five years or so the United States reconsiders its major food, farm and rural policies in a new Farm Bill. Many provisions of the currently operative law will expire at the end of September 2007, so Congress, the Administration and literally hundreds of interest groups are actively considering proposals for changes to the current law
In the past few decades, U.S. agriculture has steadily cleaned up its footprint on the landscape but major challenges remain.
Commodities
and markets
Economics
of agriculture in China
Exotic
pests and diseases
Farm Bill 2007
Food
security
International
trade
Land use and farmland conversion
Natural
resources & the environment
Organic
agriculture
Personnel
and hired farm labor
Policy
Risk
management
Science
and technology
Sustainability
Research
collaborators
Research
working papers
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