February 28, 2017 Civil Eats recently published an article highlighting efforts across the ten University of California (UC) campuses to increase the amount of sustainable food purchased by university food services. According to its 2016 Annual Report on Sustainable Practices, the UC system has already met its 2020 goal of procuring 20% of its food from…

January 26, 2017 By Nina F. Ichikawa, BFI Policy Director Kathy Ozer was born August 4, 1958, and taken from us way too early. We have lost a lion of the food and farming movement. In the more than quarter-century she led the National Family Farm Coalition, as well as co-founding or guiding other organizations,…

January 23, 2017 By Ann Thrupp, Berkeley Food Institute Executive Director This blog post originally appeared in the UC Food Observer on January 19, 2017. Over the past three years, I have been continually inspired by the remarkable level of student enthusiasm about education and activism tied to sustainable agriculture and food systems. At the…