Youth Development

Oh, how popular they are. If you've ever seen youngsters jumping up and down in pure delight--and pure enthusiasm--you've probably been to an event spotlighting the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology insect specimens. And now you can help.

Nutrition plays an important role in promoting health and preventing disease, but where people live or how much money they earn can affect their ability to access or afford healthy food. Understanding the role socio-economic conditions play can help inform prevention efforts.

As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit communities across the U.S. in mid-March 2020, the policy team at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Nutrition Policy Institute received an urgent email from a longtime partner in the San Joaquin Valley.

Youth EFNEP partnered with the San Bernardino City Unified School Districts' Family Engagement Center to help support their Summer Reading Program. Over 120 Kindergarten through Sixth graders joined the 6 week virtual program via Zoom.

Nutrition Policy Institute senior researcher and policy advisor, Wendi Gosliner, was featured in an article in Western FarmPress about a pilot program for San Diego County CalFresh participants to receive monthly text messages about the benefits of California-grown fruits and vegetables.

Las cabras curiosas se arremolinaban alrededor de los estudiantes de primaria que llevaban tapabocas y rastrillaban los establos.

As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit communities across the U.S. in mid-March 2020, the policy team at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Nutrition Policy Institute received an urgent email from a longtime partner in the San Joaquin Valley.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Mohandas K. Gandhi, World leader, political ethicist, lawyer Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

A U.S. federal government shutdown can represent a minor inconvenience, a delay in paychecks, or for people living in some of the most difficult circumstances an extended period of hunger and anxiety.

A U.S. federal government shutdown can represent a minor inconvenience, a delay in paychecks, or for people living in some of the most difficult circumstances an extended period of hunger and anxiety.