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In 2040 there will be 9 billion people to feed. Experts from around the world are researching ways to produce enough food without harming the environment.

Climate Change: What it Means for Our Agriculture and Our Health - Future Thought Leaders Series Presented by the Berry Good Food Foundation

May 6, 2019

A panel of experts discusses climate change and its effects on our agriculture and our health, while also offering insights into how we as individuals...

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The Ocean's Stethoscope: How Technology is Being Used to Study Fish Populations - Exploring Ethics

April 22, 2019

Sooner or later, the food requirements of nine billion people with increasing appetites for seafood must be addressed. Although aquaculture may supply...

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Majoring in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

March 12, 2019

UC Davis has one of the best agriculture schools in the world, helping to feed a growing a population. Take a peek at the SAFS major in the College of...

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2018 Innovator of the Year - DryCard™

October 29, 2018

The DryCard™ is an inexpensive device developed by UC Davis researchers, Michael Reid and Jim Thompson, for determining if dried food is dry enough to...

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Turning Waste into Food at a California Caviar Farm

October 16, 2018

Until recently, wastewater from the fish tanks on the Tsar Nicholai farm emptied into a giant man-made pond, but now the caviar farm is using the nutr...

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Pig Personality - A Closer Look at Farm Animals

October 16, 2018

At the Animal Science Swine Center at UC Davis, Kristina Horback studies pig personality. She monitors the behavior of female pig from birth through p...

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Can We Grow One of the World’s Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer?

October 4, 2018

Researchers from UC Davis, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Mars, Incorporated have made a remarkable discovery: an indigenous variety of Mexi...

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Hi-Tech Farming from UC Davis

October 2, 2018

Thanks to technology the farm of the future produces more food with less water and less impact on the environment and climate. And it also provides sk...

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California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross

September 12, 2018

Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses the future of food and public policy in California and around th...

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Farming for the Future: Claire Kremen

July 25, 2018

Agriculture today is extraordinarily productive, although sadly many people are chronically hungry, malnourished or obese. And the way we farm also ta...

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