Climate change vulnerability in the food energy, and water nexus: concerns for agricultural production in Arizona and its urban export supply

As the USFS's "Climate Change and Water: In Brief" summarizes, declining water quantity and quality are becoming common issues, especially where our demands exceed supply. Growing water demands then put aquatic resources and other services at risk because less water is available to sustain them.

This guidebook contains information about water resources and water rights, conservation tools, best practices and practical guidance. Section 1 presents an overview of water resources and water rights in Arizona.

Benefiting Landowners and Desert Rivers: A Water Rights Handbook for Conservation Agreements in Arizona is intended as this go-to reference for farmers and ranchers, partner organizations and anyone looking for an approachable and practical overview of water rights in Arizona.

This report provides an extensive overview of the climate trends affecting agriculture including crop production and livestock as well as projections for change over the next 25-30 years.

The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) trains law and policy students to develop real-world solutions for a more sustainable and just food system.

Land trusts can play an important role in renewable energy development. This publication offers specific guidance on ways that land trusts can participate in renewable energy siting planning and implementation to support improved conservation outcomes in the context of a changing climate.

This document reviews the basics of climate change, including impacts of climate change and the future impacts of climate change.

In this framework, NRCS identifies six major water and land resource management challenges, guidelines for identifying vulnerable agricultural landscapes and 13 strategies for NRCS leaders in western states to use now to collaborate with partners, water resource managers and producers.

Whether they take credit for it or not, land trusts already plan for climate change. This document outlines tools and approaches land trusts can use to plan for climate change in the short-term and long-term.

Land conservation and efforts to combat climate change are closely linked, and one cannot succeed without the other. This guide offers case studies about how land trusts and conservancies are working to address climate change.