Glenda Humiston, UC's new vice president in charge of agriculture and natural resources, plans to work on enhancing growers' economic opportunities in the 21st century.

A new general consumer-resource model spans the mathematics of a century's worth of food web models and provides a common foundation for new food webs.

Mark Lipson's career has taken him from Santa Cruz to Washington, D.C., and back again, now as a research associate with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.

Pet leads UCLA Anderson grad to idea for business that sells nutritious food for dogs and cats.

UC Irvine professor David Feldman and some colleagues have taken several trips to Australia in recent years, trying to figure out drought lessons from Australia that could help California.

Mom was right about washing the greens: Researchers believe peaks and valleys in leaves could be key to numerous bacterial outbreaks involving leafy green vegetables.

Helping HIV positive Kenyans improve farming practices counters hunger.

The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by UC Davis.

Beginning this fall, UC Berkeley students interested in studying how the food system works can now obtain a minor in it.

Those who study and manage water in California are focused not on the current epic drought, but on better preparing the state for the next drought; UC is mentioned.

UC Santa Cruz biodynamic pioneer Alan Chadwick turned America on to radical growing methods — influencing everyone from Alice Waters to winemakers Fetzer and Frey.

Hog Island Oyster Co. in Marshall has been collaborating with UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory to better understand ocean acidification's effect on Tomales Bay aquaculture.