World Food Center Launched

The University of California Davis (UC Davis) has established the World Food Center at UC Davis, an initiative that will tie together more than 30 centers and institutes on the campus engaged in various research related to food, nutrition, and health. In a speech delivered by Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi to the UC Davis Board of Regents on July 18, she said that the World Food Center will work with other universities and research centers not only in the UC system, but across the United States and around the world.

Katehi stressed the challenge of feeding and nourishing a rapidly growing global population in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. She said "Through this Center we hope to lead the world in the development of new knowledge about food and we hope to use this new knowledge to inform public policy." She added that the center will be a place where scholars, policy experts, government officials, media and others come for research, guidance and direction on all food-related issues as they pertain to our planet.

For more about the World Food Center, visit their website: http://worldfoodcenter.org/about.html.