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CalFresh Healthy Living, the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) teaches people eligible for SNAP about good nutrition, how to make their food dollars stretch further, and how to be physically active at any age.
Alameda County UCCE nutrition programs promote healthy communities by providing evidence-based nutrition education and implementing policy, systems, and environmental changes to support these efforts.
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) provides community education classes for income-eligible youth and adults which promote nutrition and physical activity as a means of maintaining a healthy lifestyle free from chronic disease.
The University of California Cooperative Extension Bay Area Livestock and Natural Resources Program conducts applied research and outreach to promote working landscapes that conserve biological diversity, protect water quality and sustain livestock production. https://ucanr.
An emerging program at UC ANR, Community Economic Development is the focus of a number of newly hired professionals that include County-based advisors and UC campus-based specialists throughout California.
Commercial Agriculture is continually facing new challenges. All farmers/ranchers, regardless of their expertise level or farm size, need ready access to sound science to help them address these challenges and remain viable.
Igor Lacan is a University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor for the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in urban forestry. His program of applied research and extension provides technical and policy tools to advance sustainable environmental management.
