SGMA Land Use Models News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Some experts estimate that the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, could take 10% of agricultural land out of production. UC Merced PhD candidate Vicky Espinoza is asking the questions of where and how this might take place, and who will be affected. Espinoza… “That's our growers, small scale farmers, our underrepresented communities. A lot of these communities and our growers rely on agriculture for their livelihood. So developing solutions that include their voices and their perspectives is essential in creating solutions that are climate change resilient, water scarcity resilient, and, you know, equitable and representative.”