UC San Francisco |

Does healthier food help low-income people control their diabetes?

Researchers find better management of diabetes through nutrition food and education supplied by food pantries.

Sacramento Bee |

Commentary: Let's cultivate our soils wisely

UC Davis instructor Jeff Mitchell co-authors this piece about the critical role that soils have in agriculture and the economy of the Central Valley.

UC Berkeley |

Student team aims for app to help diabetes patients dining out

UC Berkeley team heading to round 2 of the Diabetes Design Challenge.

UC Berkeley |

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

The agreement will help support programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food Pantry.

UC Davis |

UC Davis and Pakistan launch $17M food and agricultural partnership

Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.

UC Berkeley |

Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger

Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.

UC Berkeley |

Food Day star: new 'plant-forward' Brown's cafe

The new menu at the UC Berkeley eatery consists almost entirely of local foods that are grown, milled, preserved and processed within 250 miles of the campus.

UC Davis |

Map IDs farmland with greatest potential for replenishing groundwater

Groundwater banking index provides information on millions of acres of California farmland.

Sacramento Bee |

Vietnamese ambassador seeks help from UC Davis to preserve country's rice crop

Vietnam’s ambassador to Washington visited the Sacramento region to promote trade and educational exchanges, and to further his country’s long-standing relationship with UC Davis.

 

UC Newsroom |

UC students awarded Global Food Initiative fellowships

The 44 fellows, representing all 10 UC campuses, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and Berkeley Lab, will help advance the systemwide initiative.

UC Merced |

Engineering student makes an impact on agriculture

UC Merced undergrad Rebecca Quinte, a UC Global Food Initiative fellow, is working on a project that aims to shoo away leaffooted bugs, insects that feed on the seeds of crops like pomegranates, almonds and pistachios.

UC Newsroom |

UC celebrates Food Day with bounty of events

A weeklong series of special events will include cooking demonstrations, food drives, farmers markets, lectures and locally sourced meals at campus dining facilities.