Healthy Communities Blog

UC Davis and UC ANR receive $10 million for water research and education; Bay Area children will be invited to learn about water's importance to life A new University of California Cooperative Extension program will teach Bay Area schoolchildren about water through hands-on activities.

When agricultural advisors came to the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico during the 1940s, they lined the irrigation ditches with concrete, in the name of boosting efficiency and productivity.

When Laura Snell first came to the far northeastern corner of California, she was amazed to find that the Board of Supervisors in Modoc County where cows outnumber people by a ratio of 13 to 1 was composed almost entirely of women.

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.

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.