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Drought, Rangeland Restoration, and Healthy Food for the Navajo People
Mikelle Silversmith, Terrill Yazzie, Shirley Tolth, and J. Patrick
Summary
The Navajo Nation (NN) extends over a vast geographical area in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The NN is classified as a food desert by USDA with one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the United States contributing to chronic poor health conditions.
Years of prolonged drought and over-grazing now threaten the sustainability of the Navajo Nation agroecosystem and the future of Navajo farming and ranching operations.
The poster will highlight the collaborative work of the New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service (NM CES), the Dine’ College Land Grant Office (DC LGO), and the Navajo Nation Department of Agriculture (NNDA) to provide Navajo producers the education, training, and mentoring necessary to adopt the appropriate production practices to address the environmental constraints of drought, declining rangeland conditions, and the need to increase the supply of healthy food.
The NM CES, DC LGO, and NNDA collaborative effort is supported with grant funding from the Western Extension Risk Management Education Center.
The title of the poster is Meeting the Challenges of Drought, Rangeland Restoration, and Providing Healthy Food for the Navajo people.
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| Conference | 2026 Extension Risk Management Education National Conference |
| Presentation Type | Poster |