Senate panel advances bill to broaden technical assistance for Healthy Soils and Climate Smart Ag programs
AB 947 would expand the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Climate Smart technical assistance program to include grant writing help, equipment sharing and broader outreach to socially disadvantaged farmers; the measure prompted questions about race-based definitions used in existing Farm Equity law.
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Assemblymember Connolly presented AB 947, which would expand CDFA’s Climate Smart Technical Assistance Program (part of the Healthy Soils and related programs) to add training, conservation planning, grant writing support, matching-funds coordination, equipment-sharing provisions and outcome monitoring, with aims to improve access for small-scale and organic producers.
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