Virtual National Adaptation Forum: Harvesting Strategies from the Agriculture Sector to Enhance Climate-Amplified Disast

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As extreme heat events become more frequent, we need adaptation solutions that can meet the needs to prepare for these events across scales and sectors. For the agricultural sector, there is a growing approach to harness the sun's energy during periods of extreme heat, rather than trying to combat it with increasingly expensive measures. This approach is a farming system called agrivoltaics. Rose Olivas is a researcher with the Redford Conservancy study on agrivoltaics in southern California. In this session, she will discuss the dual use of land for both agriculture and solar energy, as in solar panels. Agrivoltaics has been helping farms to minimize heat stress and generate energy to store and use on farms and distribute to local communities. She will present on how agrivoltaics can be designed for agricultural producers, current projects, and how it can aid disaster preparedness.