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A Summer of Opportunities and Research: 2020-21 Graduate Fellows Program
Note from BFI staff: This graduate student fellowship program is the result of generosity from folks like you. If you can help us keep this program running in the year ahead, please make a tax-deductible gift. +++++ November 18, 2020 By Justina Robinson, BFI Communications Assistant This summer, the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) supported a…
The Racial Economics of Proposition 22
Our interviews of grocery gig workers reveal a bleak labor landscape, made more precarious by the COVID-19 pandemic.
From UC Berkeley Farms to East Bay Neighbors
September 30, 2020 By Milton Stookey Milton Stookey is a third-year undergraduate studying physics at U.C. Berkeley. Downtown Berkeley might seem like an unusual place for a farm. Yet in the middle of multi-level apartments and high-end restaurants, UC Berkeley students have the opportunity to work on a quarter-acre no-till farm, engage in agroecological research,…