Food Systems
The Berkeley Food Institute seeks to transform food systems to expand access to healthy, affordable food and promote sustainable and equitable food production. BFI is empowering new leaders with the capacity to cultivate diverse, just, resilient, and healthy food systems. The institute implements research and educational programs linked to policy...
The Center serves as a resource for UCSC graduate and undergraduate students interested in topics including agroecology, urban agriculture, sustainable agriculture, and food security. The Center reaches academics, researchers, policy makers, students, and the general public through classes, conferences, public events, tours, and publications.
The...
This article reviews the benefits and challenges of farm-to-school efforts, describing some of the innovative ways that food service directors on California’s Central Coast are working to overcome challenges by forming effective partnerships with other school districts and with food banks and produce distributors.
It also describes how efforts to...
Our Food Chain promotes healthy eating by using media to educate and inspire parents, children, communities, and policy makers to get involved in their school lunch programs and improve the food options in their homes and in their communities.
Its award-winning hour-long documentary, which can be viewed on its website, is based on innovations in...
This educational and residential program is focused on experiential learning, sustainability, and food systems. PICA residents have the opportunity to grow their own food together, share meals, and explore ways to live more sustainably.
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors from disciplines across the social sciences, natural sciences, arts and...
A positive vision informs this planning framework: healthy children ready to learn, “food literate” graduates, invigorated local communities, sustainable agriculture, and a healthy environment.
The Guide is a downloadable PDF that explains the rationale for reforming school food and explores the ten pathways that constitute the planning...
The Student Farm at UC Davis is a community where students work to create, maintain, and explore sustainable food systems. At the farm, students grow in many ways, learning from seasoned field-based educators, from their peers, and from themselves. They come to understand sustainability through the soils, crops, climate, and community in which they work...
SNaX is a school-based program that aims to empower students and families to make healthy decisions about nutrition and exercise. On their website, designed for students, parents, and community members, you will find SNaX materials (videos, parent worksheets, student advocate guides, and bookmarks) to help students learn fun facts about healthy eating...
SAREP provides leadership and support for scientific research and education in agricultural and food systems that are economically viable, conserve natural resources and biodiversity, and enhance the quality of life in the state's communities.
SAREP serves farmers, farmworkers, ranchers, researchers, educators, regulators, policy makers, industry...
The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force sees "Good Food" as the new paradigm within the food system — encouraging production, distribution, accessibility and consumption of high-quality food to build a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.
A Good Food System prioritizes the health and well-being of our residents; makes healthy, quality food...
