Archives by Tag 'agriculture'
Healthy Farms, Healthy People: A Farm and Food Policy Summit (May 2011)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated a ground-breaking meeting that brought together more than 100 leading agriculture, anti-hunger, public health and environmental advocates to better understand each other’s interests related to the 2012 Farm Bill and identify opportunities for possible future collaboration. The two-day meeting, referred to as Healthy Farms, Healthy People: A Farm and [...]
CONCUR Facilitates Farm Bill Retreat (January 2011)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated a one-day retreat exploring the potential for a diverse set of national stakeholders to build a coalition around the 2012 Farm Bill reauthorization. The January 2011 retreat, held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, brought together 30 public health, agriculture, environmental and anti-hunger leaders interested in [...]
Wingspread Foundation Water Funders Forum (January 2010)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Associate Rebecca Tuden teamed with conveners from The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread to facilitate a three-day workshop among 27 leading grant-making organizations involved in national and regional water resource efforts. The meeting was convened from January 13 – 15, 2010 at The Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin. Participants in the [...]
New CONCUR Fact Sheet on Watershed Planning
CONCUR has prepared a new fact sheet focused on our watershed planning experience and expertise (download PDF). Watershed planning touches on a broad range of issues including local land use policies, stream protection concerns, restoration goals, flood control, and water quality. The planning framework can be transboundary and address implications for climate change adaptation, or [...]
CALFED: Assessment of Water Use Efficiency Technical Assistance (2006-2007)
As part of ongoing inter-agency efforts to implement a Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Program in California, in 2007, the US Bureau of Reclamation asked CONCUR, Inc. to conduct an assessment of the technical assistance provided in support of local WUE programs. CONCUR gathered information from two main sources: a set of approximately 40 confidential stakeholder [...]
Distributing Limited Resources in the Imperial Valley (2006)
CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks teamed with UC Berkeley Professor Michael Hanemann to assist the Imperial Irrigation District (District) in evaluating and ranking different methods to support the equitable distribution of water within the District. The District provides irrigation water and electric power to the lower southeastern portion of California’s desert. The Imperial Valley produces [...]
CALFED: Using Joint Fact-Finding to Resolve Long-Standing Disputes (1998-2005)
From 1998-2005, CONCUR organized, structured and facilitated several high-profile and technically complex independent review processes intended to help resolve several aspects of California’s long-standing water wars. These independent review panels – undertaken as part of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, a state-federal initiative intended to resolve the state’s intertwined water supply reliability, water quality, levee system [...]
Economic Analysis of Potential Land Retirement for the Westlands Water District in the San Joaquin Valley (2001-2002)
CONCUR worked with a team headed by Economic Insights to undertake a financial analysis for Westlands Water District to evaluate the potential impacts of possible land retirement of a significant amount of land in the District. This analysis was prompted by a proposal from the United States government to retire from 150,000 to 200,000 acres [...]
CALFED: Devising an Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Program (1998-2001)
Between 1998 and 2001, CONCUR successfully mediated a dialogue among agricultural, environmental and agency interests working to structure a program that elicits and assures efficient agricultural water management practices. The effort, known as the Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Steering Committee and part of the federal-state initiative known as the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, helped resolve longstanding [...]
Training for U.S. Department of Agriculture (February & May 1995, January 1996)
CONCUR traveled to Mission, Texas; Rapid City, South Dakota; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Sacramento, California to deliver one-day workshops to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on mutual gains bargaining. After guiding attendees through the key principles of a successful mutual gains bargaining process, CONCUR instructors led enrollees through a CONCUR-developed simulation applying mutual gains [...]