Blueberries and green beans in paper trays on a yellow checked tablecloth

Global Food Initiative

UC is working to address one of the critical issues of our time: How to sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach 8 billion by 2025.

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Sustainable Agriculture Education Association
Sustainable Agriculture Education Association conference overview
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, with support from the UC Global Food Initiative, hosted the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association national conference, highlighting hands-on educational efforts that bridge scientific and social issues.
List Grid
Q&A with Pat Crawford
The senior director of research at UC's Nutrition Policy Institute discusses her research.
UC Global Food Initiative fellow Hoaithi Dang (right of mascot) is doing his part to make UC Merced a green campus.
Students take lead in helping campus go green
UC Merced students Gabriel Morabe and Hoaithi “Thi” Dang share a love of green — the color that makes for a better campus and stronger planet.
Professor Ken Hiltner, UCSB's Sustainability Champion for 2014-2015, and a group of his students toured Goleta-based Fairview Gardens as part of his course “The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change.”
A champion for sustainability
Professor Ken Hiltner, UC Santa Barbara's current Sustainability Champion, is spearheading the campus's Environmental Humanities Initaitive, aiming to engage faculty and students of all disciplines.