In coordination with the publication of the volume "California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues," edited by Jerry Siebert and published by the Giannini Foundation, the Foundation hosted a one-day conference in Sacramento that was inspired by the content of the volume.  The conference was held on May 28, 2004.

The organizing principal of the conference was a dialogue between practitioners, policymakers, and the academic experts that are the authors of the book's chapters.  The conference surveyed the challenges that the environmental and political context in California, the United States, and the larger world presents to the agricultural sector in California, but also highlighted the challenges that agricultural producction presents to California's environment and society.

California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues, edited by Jerry Siebert (in PDF format):

• Table of Contents
  
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Evolution of California Agriculture, 1850 - 2000, Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
• Chapter 2: Cross Sections of a Diverse Agriculture: Profiles of California's Agricultural Production Regions and Principal Commodities, Warren E. Johnston
• Chapter 3: The Measure of California Agriculture & its Importance in the State's Economy, Daniel Sumner, Jose E. Bervejillo and Nicolai V. Kuminoff
• Chapter 4: Marketing California's Agricultural Production, Hoy F. Carman, Roberta Cook and Richard Sexton
• Chapter 5: International trade and the Road Ahead for California Agriculture, Tiffany Arthur, Colin Carter, and Alix Peterson Zwane
• Chapter 6: Commodity Policy and California Agriculture, Daniel A. Sumner and Henrich Brunke
• Chapter 7: Water Infrastructure and Water Allocation in California, Richard Howitt and Dave Sunding
• Chapter 8: Hired Workers on California Farms, Philip Martin and Bert Mason
• Chapter 9: Environmental issues in California Agriculture, Sean B. Cash and David Zilberman
• Chapter 10: Organic Agricultural Production in California, Karen Klonsky
• Chapter 11: Science and Technology, Julian M. Alston and David Zilberman
• Chapter 12: California's Edge Problem: Urban Impacts on Agriculture, Alvin D. Sokolow
  

To obtain a hard copy of the volume "California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues," please e-mail David Zilberman at zilber@are.berkeley.edu, with the subject: : "CalAg book request."

Presentations from the conference (in PDF format):

• "Public Intellectual Property Issues and Resources for Agriculture," Alan Bennett
• "Significance of California Agriculture," C.L. Gallagher
• "Water and California Agriculture," Richard Howitt
• "Marketing California's Unique Agriculture," Karen Klonsky and Richard Sexton
• "Measures of California Agriculture," "Daniel A. Sumner
• "Environmental Regulation and California Agriculture," David Sunding
• "Farm Labor Issues and Options," Don Villarejo
  
• "Science and Technology;" David Zilberman
• "International Trade and the Road Ahead for California Agriculture," Alix Peterson Zwane

Conference Speakers:

• Alan Bennett - Executive Director at the Office of Technology Transfer, University of California 
• Janice Cooper - President of Pacific Resources Consulting and pear farmer
• Vernon Crowder - Senior Economist, Bank of America
• Anthony Francois - Governmental Affairs Department, California Farm Bureau Federation
• C.L. Gallagher - Agribusiness Executive at the Bank of America
• W.R. Gomes - Vice President - Agriculture & Natural Resources, Director - Agricultural Experiment Station & Director - Cooperative Extension in the UC Office of the President, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Martha Guzman - California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
• Richard Howitt - Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Caliornia - Davis
• Karen Klonsky - Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Davis
• Thomas A. Nassif - President and CEO of Western Growers
• Philip Martin - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Davis
• Alan L. Olmstead - Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California
• Mark Rentz - Vice President of Environmental and Legal Affairs, California Forestry Association
• Joseph Rollo - Director, International Programs, Wine Institute
• Richard J. Sexton - Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Davis
• Alan D. Sokolow - Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Human and Cummunity Development at the University of California, Davis, and Associate Director for Rural-Urban Issues at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center
• Daniel A. Sumner - Frank H. Buck, Jr. Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis , and Director of University of California Agricultural Issues Center
• David L. Sunding -  Professor and cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley
• Don Villarejo - consultant and founder, California Institute for Rural Studies
• Stuart Woolf - Director and CEO of Woolf Enterprises
• David Zilberman - Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California - Berkeley, and director of the Giannini Foundation
• Alix Peterson Zwane - Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, University of California - Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  

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Last Updated: June 21, 2004