SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The only constant is change for farmworkers across California who are dealing with major droughts, wildfires and floods.

Farms have gotten used to adapting to any circumstance in the fight against climate change.

Few people know more about this adaptive nature than Don Cameron, general manager of Terranova Ranch in Fresno County. He is part of the Sustainable Pest Management working group, which recently created a plan for California to transition to safer pest management by 2050.

California already has some of the toughest pesticide regulations in the country, but state officials are looking to take further steps forward by banning all toxic pesticides in the next few decades.

“We’d love to not have to ever apply anything to our crops, but we know that there’s just diseases, pests that will find whatever we’re growing,” Cameron said.

The working group, which was comprised of farmers, researchers and environmental advocates, spent the last two years creating a roadmap for the state to follow to help transition away from chemicals that harm the environment.

“We’re excited," said Cameron. "We know it’s going to take time, though. It’s not going to happen overnight because California has over 400 different crops."

At the unveiling of the roadmap at UC Davis, California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Yana Garcia shared how important it is to start working towards the transition now to be ready when 2050 comes around.

“The urgency in which we have to act is real," said Garcia. "We’re reeling right now from this sort of climate whiplash of drought, wildfires, storms, extreme heat. That cycle really impacts our ecosystem. It impacts our air quality, health, access to water resources.”

Garcia detailed how marginalized communities are often the ones that face the biggest burdens from climate change, so it was important to have their voices involved with the creation of the climate action roadmap.

“This has been a key environmental justice priority for many communities for a long time," she said. "And a lot of folks can associate this with so much that even the united farmworkers have pushed for. So many people in rural communities and those are at the intersection of poverty and pollution have been pushing for, for many years."

Suguet López, executive director of Lideres Campesinas, a statewide network of farmworker women throughout California, was one of the farmworker advocates who was also involved with creating the roadmap.

“Farmworker women have decades and centuries of wisdom on how to do farming and how to control pests so they were able to provide some ideas and recommendations to strengthen this roadmap,” she said.

Toxic pesticide exposure has had major health impacts on farmworkers and has been something López has been fighting against for decades.

“We were at the table with this work group, bringing the voices and the experiences of the woman that include not only the health impact, but also the emotional impacts of pesticide exposure,” she said.

Now, with the roadmap being unveiled, farmers across the state will have to again be adaptive in hopes of creating a more sustainable future.

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