Nutrition & Health

The Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources is seeking a part-time Communications Fellow who can manage and grow our digital presence and provide general communications support.

The University of California Nutrition Policy Institute director, Lorrene Ritchie, is a keynote presenter at the Conference on School Meals. The conference is hosted by the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway June 8-10, 2022.

Beginning in school year 2022-2023, California will become the first state to implement a statewide Universal Meals Program for school children.

In April, I attended the Growing School Gardens Summit in Denver, Colorado, thanks to support from UCCE San Bernardino.

Plants they're just like us, with unique techniques for handling stress. To save one of the most important crops on Earth from extreme climate swings, scientists are mapping out plants' own stress-busting strategies.

The Nutrition Policy Institute's CalFresh Healthy Living evaluation team analyzed data from a stratified, random sample of 190 CalFresh Healthy Living-eligible school districts in California to better understand equitable school meal distribution and changes in meal participation during COVID-19 sch...

How much do you know about tadpole shrimp? First, they're neither tadpoles nor shrimp. Second, they're crustaceans and are pests of rice.

En un da caluroso y tras una larga caminata por los cultivos de ctricos, cebolla, papa y aguacate y ms vegetales, decenas de estudiantes se detenan en el refugio de sombra a tomar descanso y a degustar algo que les sorprendi.

On a hot day and after a long walk-through of farm fields full of citrus, onion, potato, avocado, and other fruits and vegetables, dozens of students stopped at a shade shelter to take a break and taste something that surprised them. An avocado ice popsicle.

Participation in CalFresh by eligible elderly Californians is estimated at 19% CalFresh Food, known nationally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and historically as the Food Stamp Program, is California's largest food assistance program and serves as the first line of defense a...