Program Overview
The goal of this program is to build the capacity of producers, land managers, and technical service providers to implement land management practices focused on mitigation of and adaptation to climate change to support and improve local, rural food systems and economies.
We are building capacity through:
- On-farm soil health workshops that are adaptive, inclusive, locally based and participatory
- Demonstration projects where producers show producers, technical advisors, and land managers techniques that increase ecosystem resilience in arid and semi arid working lands
- Research that is participatory and collaborative and results in outcomes that can be applied to working lands
- Network building in communities to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, techniques, and resources to increase community resilience
- Interface and partner with government agencies to leverage state and nationwide efforts with our own for robust, long lasting, widespread impacts on land management
Broadly, we seek to answer these two questions:
1. How can we use the healthy soil principles to increase productivity, diversity, and resilience (to drought, erosion, etc.) on working drylands?
2. How can waste be transformed to improve ecological, social, and economic outcomes for rural producers?
In partnership with Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance (SWGLA), Good Meat Project, and Reunity Resources, Quivira Coalition has been awarded a five-year grant through the USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities program. Our project will support producers to get more meat, hides, fiber, and other livestock products into regional supply chains, while reducing waste, increasing soil health, and building climate resilience. Read more about this opportunity here.
CRI Team
Amy Larsen
Eva Stricker
Nina Listro
Rebecca Baldwin-Kordick
