CAFÉ (California Agricultural and Food Enterprise)
The California Agriculture and Food Enterprise (CAFÉ) builds on UCR’s unique history and strengths in interdisciplinary research, facilities and outreach to positively impact the science, policies and practices related to the critical role of food and agriculture on health and well-being of humanity and the planet.
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R'Garden
Open to students, faculty, staff, and community members, to grow fresh produce while providing an opportunity to learn about social, environmental, and economic sustainability through a food systems approach.
R’Garden is three acres that includes a community garden, row crops, a Valencia orchard, and a greenhouse area. It serves as a sustainability hub to promote service learning, and community-based research around food systems through student-led projects and collaborations with the campus and community.
R’Pantry, the UC Riverside food pantry, was created as a direct response to student need for more resources to fight food insecurity. Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or the ability to acquire such foods in a socially acceptable manner. This program is made possible by cross campus partnerships with students, staff, and faculty.
Swipe-Out Hunger UCR
(Swipes for the Homeless)
Operates by asking students with UCR meal plans to donate their meal swipes between Week 9 and 10 of each quarter.
UCR Seeds of Change Initiative
Seeds of Change focuses on providing healthy, sustainable, socially responsible, and delicious menus to the campus and community. The program embraces the vision of the Culinary Institute of America and Harvard School of Public Health to leverage the unique position of universities to advance healthier, more sustainable life-long food choices among students – who will soon be parents and adult decision makers – by connecting a diversity of insights from academic programs and dining services. Seeds of Change focuses on 24 core principles to help reconstruct how UCR Dining Services creates and delivers their menus. These principles include menu concepts and general operational guidelines as well as key focus areas for back-of-the-house kitchen operations. The program promotes transparency within Dining Services while providing food and ingredient focus areas incorporating such principles as seasonal and local foods, placing produce first, removing unhealthy oils from recipes, and providing whole grain options to campus and residential restaurants.
UCR Global Issues Forum
Creating a space on campus for students to discuss important global issues beyond the news headlines.
UCR Palm Desert Center
Bringing Ethics to the Table, a lecture and film series, was born from a desire to engage, inform and inspire the community on the topics that matter most, from food scarcity to sustainability.
UCR Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
BS in Sustainability Studies
A new bachelor of science degree in Sustainability Studies that brings science and social justice together in examining environmental change.