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Cadiz Inc – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/13 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 11/8/13, at 1:47pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/13   ·   Accession #:  727273-13-51   ·   File #:  0-12114

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/08/13  Cadiz Inc                         10-Q        9/30/13   43:2.6M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September  HTML    344K 
                30, 2013                                                         
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML     87K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     14K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     14K 
42: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     40K 
31: R2          Consolidated Statements of Operations and           HTML     50K 
                Comprehensive Loss (Unaudited)                                   
28: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)             HTML     89K 
15: R4          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)             HTML     25K 
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
30: R5          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)   HTML     87K 
22: R6          Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity     HTML     32K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
37: R7          Note 1 - Description of Business and Summary of     HTML     37K 
                Significant Accounting Policies                                  
23: R8          Note 2 - Long-Term Debt                             HTML     52K 
25: R9          Note 3 - Common Stock                               HTML     28K 
16: R10         Note 4 - Stock-Based Compensation Plans and         HTML     31K 
                Warrants                                                         
24: R11         Note 5 - Income Taxes                               HTML     21K 
36: R12         Note 6 - Net Loss Per Common Share                  HTML     19K 
34: R13         Note 7 - Contingencies                              HTML     20K 
29: R14         Note 8 - Subsequent Events                          HTML     18K 
39: R15         Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies)           HTML     49K 
35: R16         Note 2 - Long-Term Debt (Tables)                    HTML     41K 
13: R17         Note 1 - Description of Business and Summary of     HTML     56K 
                Significant Accounting Policies (Details)                        
18: R18         Note 2 - Long-Term Debt (Details)                   HTML     59K 
38: R19         Note 2 - Long-Term Debt (Details) - Carrying        HTML     37K 
                Amount of The Company’s Outstanding Debt                         
41: R20         Note 2 - Long-Term Debt (Details) - Carrying        HTML     18K 
                Amount of The Company’s Outstanding Debt                         
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
43: R21         Note 2 - Long-Term Debt (Details) - Annual          HTML     30K 
                Maturities of Long-Term Debt Outstanding                         
40: R22         Note 3 - Common Stock (Details)                     HTML     32K 
32: R23         Note 4 - Stock-Based Compensation Plans and         HTML     82K 
                Warrants (Details)                                               
17: R24         Note 5 - Income Taxes (Details)                     HTML     23K 
21: R25         Note 6 - Net Loss Per Common Share (Details)        HTML     18K 
20: R26         Note 7 - Contingencies (Details)                    HTML     19K 
19: R27         Note 8 - Subsequent Events (Details)                HTML     29K 
27: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     58K 
14: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     60K 
26: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports (.xls)            XLS    246K 
 7: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- cdzi-20130930                       XML    336K 
 9: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cdzi-20130930_cal               XML     81K 
10: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cdzi-20130930_def                XML    355K 
11: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cdzi-20130930_lab                     XML    530K 
12: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cdzi-20130930_pre              XML    345K 
 8: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cdzi-20130930                         XSD     91K 
33: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000727273-13-000051-xbrl      Zip     65K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — cdzi-20130930_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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