UC Berkeley's Food Security Committee has assembled a toolkit of resources — from a food pantry to emergency funds to tips on cooking on a budget — to help ensure that no student goes hungry.

The finalists were selected for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially salmonella in fresh, minimally processed produce.

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.

Thanks in part to researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, cattle ranchers are one step closer to having a vaccine available to treat a tick-borne bacterial disease that kills cow fetuses.

The new edition of Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors draws on nearly 50 years of experience teaching these skills to beginning organic farmers and gardeners at the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship.

If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.

The student innovation received a record number of applications from 201 teams representing more than 700 students across nine UC campuses and 17 other universities, including 41 applications for the new Food System Innovations category.

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.