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Wildfires increasingly threaten California’s agricultural sector, posing serious risks to farming, ranching, and food systems. We conducted a survey of 505 California farmers and ranchers affected by wildfires between 2017 and 2023. Main findings show that wildfires’ impacts on producers are extensive and range from mild to catastrophic, with both...
Wildfires increasingly threaten California’s agricultural sector, posing serious risks to farming, ranching, and food systems. We conducted a survey of 505 California farmers and ranchers affected by wildfires between 2017 and 2023. Main findings show that wildfires’ impacts on producers are extensive and range from mild to catastrophic, with both...
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The proliferation of AI-powered bots and sophisticated fraudsters poses a significant threat to the integrity of scientific studies reliant on online surveys across diverse disciplines, including health, social, environmental and political sciences. We found a substantial decline in usable responses from online surveys from 75 to 10% in recent year...
Data for research reports and policy briefs for the project "Farming & Ranching Through Wildfire Season". Based on a survey of the impacts and responses of California producers.
The primary data collection for this research was conducted through a 34 question survey aimed at assessing the experiences and responses of 505 California farmers and ra...
This policy brief delves into the challenges and needs of California farmers impacted by wildfires, particularly between 2017 and 2023. The brief synthesizes findings from a comprehensive survey involving 440 farmers across 56 California counties, all of whom were affected by wildfires in various capacities, including evacuations and significant lo...
The Farm Bill offers financial assistance, risk management tools, and support for farmers and ranchers, promoting the stewardship of natural resources and sustainable agricultural production. It also allocates resources for disaster prevention and recovery, which is particularly important in wildfire-prone regions like California. Here, we present...
Focus groups are commonly used in extension. Extension professionals can encounter unique challenges when conducting focus groups. Extension literature is replete with best practices for conducting focus groups, but there is a lack of systematically documented practical challenges and strategies for overcoming them. We share the challenges we have...
California’s agricultural production is facing ever-growing challenges due to climate change. We conducted a needs assessment of farmers in California in 2023, to better understand their climate change challenges, experiences, and resource and information needs. This study employed a convergent parallel mixed-methods design with a questionnaire cre...
Wildfires increasingly threaten California’s agricultural sector, posing serious risks to farming, ranching, and food systems. We conducted a survey of 505 California farmers and ranchers affected by wildfires between 2017 and 2023. Main findings show that wildfires’ impacts on producers are extensive and range from mild to catastrophic, with both...
We present a practical and accessible template for quantitative survey data analysis designed for non-academic researchers in order to facilitate engagement from community collaborators. The template, created in Google Sheets, is mainly for computing cross-tabulations, but it also displays frequency distributions and p-values for determining statis...
Wildfires increasingly threaten California's agricultural sector, posing serious risks to farming, ranching, and food systems. We conducted a survey of 505 California farmers and ranchers affected by wildfires between 2017 and 2023. Main findings show that wildfires' impacts on producers are extensive and range from mild to catastrophic, with both...
California is the largest agricultural economy in the United States; however, its current and projected climate risks pose significant challenges. Farmers will need to adapt to climate change in their farming practices. The goal of this needs assessment was to understand farmers' perceptions and experiences with climate change exposures; the risk m...
Identifying strategic pathways to climate-smart agriculture requires understanding the experiences of stakeholders related to farming in changing climate, adaptations, and education needs. This needs assessment identified most of the common climate stressors categorized as water, temperature, and disaster related. However, non-climate issues were i...
This paper examines the use by California’s direct market farmers (DMFs) of online sales and marketing during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, from March through December 2020. The pandemic caused market disruptions that accelerated the trend toward market digitalization. This paper reports quantitative findings ba...
Information on climate change is one of our best resources for adaptation planning. Climate scientists have a strong understanding of climate trends and have developed many trends and impact models (Laloyaux et al., 2018; Swain et al., 2020). Despite progress on both ends of the spectrum, DSTs that combine climate trends and impact analyses for spe...
California has so much agricultural diversity and farming is becoming challenging in the current and future climate variabilities (CDFA, 2022; Pathak et al., 2018; Rance, 2023). However, this needs assessment identified that stakeholders are currently implementing several adaptation practices related to soil health, water management, and adaptive g...
CONTEXT: Publications in agroecology have been growing rapidly in recent decades. With roots in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and peasant movements, agroecology is a transdisciplinary field bringing together different ways of knowing. Agroecological research has two main foci: a biophysical focus which operationalizes agroecology as th...
The proliferation of AI-powered bots and sophisticated fraudsters significantly threatens the integrity of online surveys, leading to a substantial decline in usable responses from 75% to 10% in recent years. Monetary incentives attract sophisticated fraudsters capable of mimicking genuine open-ended responses and verifying information submitted mo...
Climate change is causing temperature changes, increased evaporation, triggering hazards like extreme heat events, and pest pressures that are impacting agriculture in California. These impacts create an urgent need to assist farmers through the development and dissemination of climate adaptation resources and information. However, Hmong farmers st...
Smallholder farmers have practiced sustainable agriculture for thousands of years in China. Numerous smallholder farming systems remain, but most have shifted to industrial production. There is growing interest in agroecological transitions for smallholder farmers, but more attention needs to be paid to the challenges that may be encountered in the...
Needs assessment is one of the priorities in extension program development and the foundation of successful extension programs. A needs assessment process must be undertaken in a participatory and culturally responsive manner to ensure data validity and usability of results by all the stakeholders. This abstract presents the participatory and cultu...
This study sought to assess knowledge changes related to Climate Smart Agriculture programs and practices for tree nut growers in the San Joaquin Valley of California that could potentially raise awareness and influence behavioral change toward their adoption.
The use of the internet for sales and marketing has been on an upward trend in the past decade. The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted an increase in direct market farmers’ use of online sales and marketing. This paper analyzes California direct market farmers’ use of online sales and marketing technologies during the first ten months o...
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields of inquiry and action have been important academic frontiers in recent years. The field of agroecology is a prime example of transdisciplinarity. With roots in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and peasant movements, publications in agroecology have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Here...
Utilization of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus inoculum has been encouraged as a way for vegetable farmers to better utilize the AM symbiosis. On-farm systems can economically produce inoculum that has been shown to increase the yield of specific crops. Seven years of field studies were conducted with five or six cultivars of bell pepper (Capsic...
