Nutrition & Health

More than 23,000 people, including 4,800 children, in San Luis Obispo County have difficulty getting enough food throughout the year for an active, healthy life. When people can't access enough food, their overall health suffers.

En espaol To adapt to climate change, Karuk Tribe members identified the importance of monitoring climate stress on plant species and actively managing and restoring healthy ecosystem processes to increase the consistency and quality of their food harvests, according to a new report.

The destructiveness of wildfire flames is easy to see, but dangers may lurk in the ashes they leave behind.

Over 13 million Californians participate in safety net programs that provide resources including health insurance, food assistance, and tax credits.

A Graduate Student Researcher position is available starting summer 2023 with the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Three years ago, in early March 2020, our CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE team was sitting in our downstairs auditorium trying to figure out how we could host our annual 4-H SNAC Culinary Academy in the face of something we had never experienced, and didn't yet grasp, was going to be a pandemic that w...

Max Fairbee spent his high school years moving around Southern California to cities like Covina, La Verne, Pomona and Apple Valley, hoping that his mother would find stability in the next place they'd call home.

An Administrative Officer 2 position is available at the Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources.

A new research brief developed by the Nutrition Policy Institute details findings from an evaluation of the California Nutrition Incentive Program, a program that provides CalFresh shoppers with a dollar-for-dollar match when purchasing California-grown produce at participating farmers markets and o...

The Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources has commented in support of the US Department of Agriculture's "Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans" proposed new durable rule,...