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Senate hearing: climate-smart ag programs delivered measurable GHG and water benefits but face tight GGRF funding
Summary
State officials and analysts told a joint Senate Agriculture and Environmental Quality hearing that decade-long investments in climate‑smart agriculture have produced measurable greenhouse‑gas and water savings, but witnesses said chronic funding shortages in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) threaten continued momentum.
A joint informational hearing of the California State Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on March 19 examined how cap‑and‑invest dollars have been used to support climate‑smart agriculture programs and whether those investments can be sustained.
Virginia Jamieson, Deputy Secretary for Climate and Working Lands at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, told the committees that CDFA’s portfolio has received roughly $727,000,000 over the past decade for flagship programs including the Healthy Soils Program, the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEET), the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMP), and dairy digester research and development. Jamieson said those programs have delivered an estimated 31,000,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent reductions, “approximately equivalent…
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