Increasing Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture and Positive Community Impacts

Positive Community Impacts

Increasing Connections between Farmers and Communities

Overview

This report describes the connections between farmers and key community stakeholders in a two-county area in California, and explores ways to strengthen these connections through local leadership development and public education strategies.  This is part of a larger project involving University of California researchers, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) and the Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape commission (LWWC) to increase the adoption of sustainable agriculture and build the local leadership capacity of farmers