UC Delivers

UC Delivers is a collection of examples showing how UC ANR is making a difference in California's communities.

UC Delivers is managed by UC ANR Program Planning and Evaluation. For instructions on how to write a UC Delivers Post, click here. For instructions on how to submit a post, you can download this PDF. Please contact Christina Becker at christina.becker@ucop.edu for more information.

Photo of sign welcoming CalFresh customers

UCCE promotes CalFresh to increase access to healthy, local food

January 10, 2020

By Shannon Klisch, Katherine E Soule

Lack of access to fruits and vegetables has been cited as a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic, particularly in low-income communities. Farmers' markets have the potential for increasing equitable access to local fruits and vegetables.

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Children learn to be thankful by making gratitude cards during a 4-H Mindfulness class in an after-school program.

UC 4-H increases youth mindfulness to improve wellness

January 6, 2020

By Marcel Horowitz

The social-emotional health of American youth is of growing concern. The Centers for Disease Control reports that anxiety and depression are on the rise in American children ages 3-17, with an estimated 7.1% and 3.2% of children currently being clinically diagnosed, respectively.

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UC ANR training improves food safety practices among Alameda County seniors

December 17, 2019

By Mary L Blackburn

Seniors with diminished learning and retention capacity, physical impairments, on multiple medicines, and with weakened immune systems are less able to fight foodborne pathogens. Adults over 60 years are more likely to have complications, be hospitalized, and die because of foodborne infections.

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Image shows almond leaves with spider mites along with their feeding injury during the late part of the growing season.

IPM of spider mites on almond improves farm profitability and air quality

November 6, 2019

The almond industry in California produces approximately 80% of the world's almond supply and currently consists of approximately 1.2 million bearing and non-bearing acres.

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Entomology Advisor David Haviland discusses mating disruption at an educational tour stop sponsored by the University of California

IPM Advisors demonstrate mating disruption for key almond pest

June 28, 2019

By Jhalendra P Rijal, David R Haviland

Navel orangeworm is the single most important pest of more than 1.3 million acres of almonds in California. It feeds exclusively on almond kernels, rendering them unmarketable. Larvae are also associated with Aspergillus sp. fungi which can produce aflatoxin contamination of kernels at harvest.

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