Sustainability
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.
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Dig is a unique student group on the UCLA campus that focuses on using student-driven research and peer learning. Through Dig, students educate one another about food, activism, health, and sustainability. Dig also works to ensure that spaces like the garden at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, near UCLA’s on-campus student housing, expand throughout the...
The Garden Project facilitates collaboration among four UC Irvine community gardens to share resources, labor, gardening know-how, food, and fun. The project is building linkages with the broader Orange County community involved in sustainable food production, particularly in low-income communities.
The project aims not only to enrich student...
The Good Food Purchasing Program transforms the way public institutions purchase food by providing a metric based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core values: local economies, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, and nutrition. The Good Food Purchasing Program...
This series of videos, four to five minutes each, covers a range of topics including the future of school lunch, organic farming on UC campuses, wage justice, wild bees, edible wild plants growing in cities, and the impact of ocean acidification on marine invertebrates.
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...
R'Garden is open to UC Riverside students, faculty, staff, and community members, to grow fresh produce while learning about social, environmental, and economic sustainability through a food systems approach.
R’Garden is three acres that include a community garden, row crops, a Valencia orchard, and a greenhouse area. It serves as a sustainability...
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...
