Global Food Initiative

Last year’s drought cost the ag industry more than $1 billion, thousands of jobs, new analysis shows

UC Merced

March 3, 2022

Crops most affected by increased fallowing include rice, cotton, grain and field crops.

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

Project scientist Sarah Kimball gathers samples from an experimental plot, one of several in which UCI researchers subject local vegetation to water deprivation in order to study the results.

National conference opens flow of ideas on drought

Top researchers, public officials and policymakers converge at UC Irvine to discuss extreme water shortages and how to handle them.

Big Ideas@Berkeley announces Grand Prize Pitch Day finalists

Six of the most inspiring and promising teams in the student innovation contest, which this year added a food system innovations category, will pitch their projects to a panel of distinguished judges with the aim of receiving up to $5,000 in additional seed funding. The teams are addressing issues including culturally based urban gardening.

The UCSB Campus Food Justice Forum invited students, staff, faculty and community members to air their concerns about the campus food system and to pose potential solutions. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015324/tackling-food-insecurity#stha

Tackling food insecurity

Faculty, students, staff and area residents gather at UC Santa Barbara for group brainstorming and discussion of food security on and around campus.