From the Field
Ways to Stay in Touch with BFI During Social Distancing
With California now practicing shelter-in-place statewide, our thoughts are with all of you as we navigate this uncertain time together. Our top priority is everyone’s health and safety, and we know that access to healthcare, food, shelter, and other basic needs are core to keeping our community safe from COVID-19. Below we have posted resources…
Reflections on Organic Agriculture, Climate Resiliency, and Black Farmers from the Southern SAWG Conference
February 2o, 2020 By Frances Roberts-Gregory Frances Roberts-Gregory is a PhD candidate in Society & Environment. With travel support from the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI), I travelled last month to the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SAWG) Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a Black environmentalist living and working in New Orleans, and Berkeley PhD…
Shaking Up UC Berkeley’s Beverage Service
As UC Berkeley's contract with Pepsi is set to expire, students are pushing the university to rethink beverage service on campus.
Learning from Practitioners in the Graduate Certificate in Food Systems
December 4, 2019 By Rachel Maas and Caroline Hart In fall 2019 students in the Graduate Certificate in Food Systems core course “Transforming Food Systems: From Agroecology to Population Health” visited community organizations in the East Bay. The following reflections are a sample of how these visits changed students’ understanding of food systems. Rachel Maas…
Transforming Our Food System: An Update on Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxes
September 18, 2019 By Kristine Madsen Dr. Kristine Madsen is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and serves as Faculty Director for the Berkeley Food Institute. Our food system is driving one of the most pressing problems we confront in the 21st century: diet-related disease. As a recent Op-Ed in the…