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.

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Drought tips available for farmers

To help farmers make the best use of the water they have available, a series of new and updated drought tips fact sheets has been developed by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists and funded by the California Department of Water Resources.

Scarlet macaws eat hundreds of fruits a day.

Caught in a complex web

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.

UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Lipson, who chaired the Organic Working Group at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2010 to 2014, with some of the dry-framed tomatoes grown at Molino Creek Farm.

Farm to label: How alumnus helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation

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.