Several UC experts are quoted in this story about the drought's impact on agriculture, including Jay Lund, Richard Walker, Doug Parker and Kurt Schwabe.

Forum focuses on labor, power, policy and other issues around food.

Farmers, conservationists and scientists met for the CalCAN Climate and Agriculture Summit at UC Davis to tackle the dilemmas that face California farmers.

Free public lectures at UC Riverside will cover cowpea research, sustainable food and nutrition's impact on health; first talk to focus on feeding Botswana.

Ocean ecosystems that experience rapid upheaval because of climate change can take thousands of years to recover.

UC Davis' Pamela Ronald helped find the key to disease- and flood-resistant rice. Her next goal? How to feed the world's growing population without further destroying the environment.

Farmers get a buzz from growing specialty crop.

In drought conditions, natural processes kick in to keep plants alive until they can be watered again. But UC Riverside's Sean Cutler knows that with the help of protein engineering, some plants can last even longer.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awards nearly $2.5 million per year for four years for UC Davis lab's work for the species.

Over a weekend, volunteers joined professionals to raise the timber-framed superstructure for the re-creation of the Cowell Ranch hay barn, which will become a center for sustainability programs at UC Santa Cruz.

How UC is playing a pivotal role in food, its cultivation and feeding the world.

Food Tank's Danielle Nierenberg and Daniel Bornstein note that the UC system hosts some of the world's most prominent agricultural research institutions.