UC Merced’s Food Pantry — a collaboration between the campus, Merced County Food Bank and USDA — provides food staples for qualified students, employees and community members in need of assistance.

UC President Janet Napolitano gave the keynote speech at an event about the economic costs of obesity co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and UC Davis World Food Center.

Rock-bottom earnings all but guarantee a climate in which food servers put up with harassment just to eke out a living. UC Berkeley's Saru Jayaraman is trying to change that.

The University of California system last year announced the UC Global Food Initiative, which will explore ways to allow local growers to become campus suppliers.

UC Davis professor Pamela Ronald isolates genes in rice that feed millions. Her integrative approach to agriculture could be an even bigger game-changer.

UC Global Food Initiative student fellow Sally Geislar of UC Irvine writes about impacts of small- and large-scale farming, mentioning the work of GFI fellow Ankita Raturi of UC Irvine.

Introducing new vegetables is one of the goals of the UC Cooperative Extension educators who provide nutrition information to schoolchildren and low-income adults in Fresno County.

Matt Smiley, a 29-year-old veteran, is volunteering at a research farm at UC Davis. He’s an undergraduate on campus studying sustainable agriculture.

For four students taking a beer-brewing class at UC Davis, success is measured by the keg. Twenty of them to be exact.

UC Berkeley's Philip Stark is working to increase understanding about edible weeds in California with mapping and education activities, and to exert pressure on public policy.

Darren Haver, director of UC's South Coast Research and Extension Center, is testing to see how little water it takes to grow blueberries that are tasty and economically viable.