California Farmland Conservancy Program

The California Farmland Conservancy Program (CFCP) seeks to encourage the long-term, private stewardship of agricultural lands through the voluntary use of agricultural conservation easements. The CFCP provides grant funding for projects which use and support agricultural conservation easements for protection of agricultural lands.

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Focus on Farmland CFCP's electronic newsletter discusses the latest on events affecting agricultural land conservation in California.
Request for Grant Applications The updated Request for Grant Applications (RFGA), which provides detailed guidelines for application eligibility and instructions for the application process, is available in PDF format.
"Guidelines for the Preparation of Agricultural Conservation Easement Appraisals"The Department of Conservation's California Farmland Conservancy Program (CFCP) has released this resource for appraisers and grant applicants to use when developing appraisals that will be submitted with applications for grant funding under the CFCP.

proposition 12 report

Summarizing 28 projects and nearly 11,000 acres of strategic farm and ranch land conservation,this report documents CFCP's use of Proposition 12 funding for agricultural land conservation. The report provides an overview of how the funds were used and features the individual projects, including maps and photos, funded by the CFCP through Prop 12.

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For more information about the CFCP, contact:

California Department of Conservation
Division of Land Resource Protection
801 K Street, MS 18-01
Sacramento, California 95814

Phone: (916) 324-0850
Fax: (916) 327-3430
Email: cfcp@consrv.ca.gov