Agriculture

We will strive to create two-way communication pipelines that allow environmental data and  information to flow from the Climate Hubs and partner organizations to tribal agricultural producers and educators, and for traditional knowledge about climate and adaptation to flow back to the Hubs and other partners.

Those partners and collaborations will include individual tribal producers as well as groups such as Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC), Southwest Indian Agricultural Association (SWIAA), Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF), Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative (IFAI), and we will work to identify climate adaptation resources that can better support tribal farmers and ranchers.

Project activities are designed to foster trust between Climate Hubs and Native farmers, ranchers, and resource managers in their regions through respectful, equitable, and culturally appropriate information sharing. Our work will also showcase tribal food sovereignty initiatives, agroecosystem biocultural restoration, drought-resistant cropping, and other adaptation successes and challenges.