Acknowledgments

Several years ago, Professors John Dernbach and Michael Gerrard asked us to write the agriculture chapter for a book they were editing, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (ELI Press 2019).

We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to John Dernbach and Michael Gerrard for inviting us to contribute to Legal Pathways and for their many ideas and insightful edits and comments. We also thank the participants of the Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization workshop at Columbia Law School for their suggestions. And through the writing of both the chapter and the book (as well as an intermediate article), our sharp-eyed editor at ELI, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, has been attentive, helpful, and full of good ideas.

We are very grateful to all of our Earthjustice colleagues who have provided tremendous input to this book, the prior article, and the many documents that we have relied on. They have carefully reviewed our scientific and legal statements and helped shape our policy proposals. We particularly thank Alexis Andiman, Carrie Apfel, Claire Huang, Ranjani Prabhakar, Mustafa Saifuddin, and Tyler Smith, as well as Sorangel Liriano, Greg Loarie, Mekela Panditharatne, Surbhi Sarang, Dawa Sherpa, and Patrice Simms. We are also very grateful to Earthjustice for providing us time and support so we could share what we’ve learned about this critical topic.

We wish to thank Ben Anderson, Andrew Bowman, Michael Castellano, Adam Chambers, Alyssa Charney, Craig Cox, Marcia DeLonge, Graham Downey, Thomas Driscoll, Mark Easter, William Eubanks, Scott Faber, Jonathan Gelbard, Elizabeth Hanson, Claire Horan, Karen Hudson, Wendy Jacobs, Barbara Jones, Allen Olson, Keith Paustian, Margot Pollans, Kiley Reid, Charles Rosenberg, Susan Rosenberg, Susan Schneider, Edward Strohbehn,

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Bryce Stucki, Margaret Torn, and Jim Williams, for voluntarily taking the time to review our drafts of this book and earlier articles and documents that formed its foundation. We are grateful for their many helpful comments. Many thanks to Becca Bartholomew, Sherri Dugger, and Sarah Rodman-Alvarez whose earlier research helped shape these recommendations. Their interviews for us with over 100 sustainable farmers, advocates, and community leaders contained a wealth of expertise and experience that deeply enriched the scientific and legal analyses. We are grateful also for the generosity of those interviewed for their time, trust, and openness.

We are indebted to the participants and organizers of the Policy Pathways to Perennial Agriculture seminar, hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, for helping us better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by perennial systems. We are especially grateful to Emily Broad Leib, Fred Lutzi, Sarah Lovell, Emma Scott, and Eric Toensmeier for their feedback and suggestions. We also thank Lingxi Chenyang, Andrew Currie, and Hannah Darin for generously sharing their research on agroforestry and farm policy, which greatly informed our understanding of perennial agriculture.

We are also deeply indebted to the many advocates and allies in the environmental and sustainable agriculture movements whose insights have made our own work possible. There are far too many to name but we would be remiss if we failed to mention Carlos Borgonovo, Stephanie Cappa, Alyssa Charney, Callie Eideberg, Madeleine Foote, Aviva Glaser, Elizabeth Henderson, Ferd Hoefner, Greg Horner, Mark Izeman, Allison Johnson, Eric Kamrath, Michael Lavender, Claire O’Connor, Erik Olson, Mary Pfaffko, Diego Robelo, Virginia Ruiz, and Seth Watkins.

And finally, and most important, we thank the thousands of researchers, farmers, and farmworkers who have worked for years to develop, implement, and refine the practices we discuss. They have set the stage for a nationwide effort to transform agriculture into a climate solution.

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