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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.

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The numbers of wild pollinators like this yellow-faced bumblebee have declined in areas where the need for crop pollination is high.

Wild bees decline where crop pollination most needed, study finds

New study suggests that wild bee populations likely declined in areas comprising 23 percent of the nation between 2008 and 2013, a decline associated with conversion of natural wild bee habitat into intensive agriculture.

Winning team, Ag for Hire, brainstorms its app at the Apps for Ag Hackathon with the UC Davis World Food Center.

Hackers compete for best ag app

Ag for Hire team wins the hackathon, which, in partnership with the World Food Center at UC Davis, was one of a series of events at the Food, Ag and Health Solution Summit.

UC's top 10 stories of 2015

From expanding enrollment to tackling climate change, 2015 was a big year for the University of California.