Food

Feb. 11, 2020

Researchers to Study Viability of Vertically Farming Leafy Greens

The University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center will use a $2.7 million federal grant to study indoor leafy green production to help feed a growing global population.

Murat Kacira, professor of biosystems engineering, works in the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center.

Dec. 4, 2017

UA Offers New Food Safety Undergraduate Degree

The interdisciplinary program through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will prepare students to handle safety challenges facing the food industry.

Yuma County's leafy greens serve as the winter salad bowl for the U.S. Produce safety is one of the components of the UA's new food safety undergraduate degree program curriculum.

Nov. 7, 2017

Arizona Agriculture Is Big Business, New Report Demonstrates

Arizona agribusiness contributes $23.3 billion in sales to the state's economy and supports more than 138,000 jobs, says UA Cooperative Extension’s Economic Impact Analysis Team.

Arizona ranked second in the nation in lettuce production, providing 25 percent of the country's total production.

Sept. 1, 2017

Film 'Food Evolution' Explores the Debate Over GMOs

Faculty members from the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will discuss issues surrounding the use of genetically modified organisms at a Tucson screening.

"Food Evolution" offers "a fresh, provocative perspective on the critical issue of food."

June 29, 2016

UA Alumna Maria Andrade Receives 2016 World Food Prize

The native of Cape Verde Islands studied agronomy and plant genetics at the UA, and her sweet-potato research has impacted the lives of children and farmers in Mozambique.

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