CRAE News
CRAE Leadership Summit, Jun. 1
For the first time, on June 1, 2012, the California Roundtable on Agriculture and the Environment will be hosting a Leadership Summit, bringing together leaders of CRAE member organizations along with other appointed representatives to set a course for effective collaboration into the future. Specifically, the meeting will allow participants to share objectives and concerns in a professionally facilitated forum, identify strategic areas of common ground between environmental and agricultural groups, inform a collaborative policy agenda, determine how CRAE can best serve the strategic goals of member organizations, and enable peer-to-peer networking opportunities for building strong relationships with diverse stakeholders. We look forward to engaging the CRAE leadership in a meaningful way at this Summit.
CRAE testifies before Cannella Panel
Nov. 2011 The newly re-formed Cannella Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel held their inaugural meeting on November 7, 2011, with the main focus being ecosystem services. CRAE partner Casey Walsh Cady, with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, provided the Panel with an update on the Roundtable’s efforts on the subject, which include identifying key elements of ecosystem services frameworks, compiling a list of pilot projects in California, and building a strategy for creating an enabling policy environment for growing ecosystem services markets in California.
CRAE Supports Karen Ross for CDFA Secretary
Mar. 2011 CRAE members submitted a letter of support to Senator Darrell Steinberg for the appointment of Karen Ross to the post of Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Continuing Resolution, H.R.1
Mar. 2011 As part of its Farm Bill work, CRAE membership sent a letter to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer opposing disproportionate funding cuts.
Read More »High Speed Rail Sign On Letter
Feb. 2011 CRAE members urged the California High-Speed Rail Authority to limit the impact of rail on farmland by placing rail lines along existing transportation corridors.
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