Ag-Food-Tech

How will we feed 10 billion people? How can natural resources be used even more efficiently? What do the students of today need to understand about agriculture to feed the people of tomorrow?

Ag-Food-Tech is an emergent strength of UC Merced’s faculty, with representation of experts from across the campus. Faculty address many aspects of production and adapt tools for food processing, contributing to many different production systems and California’s diversity of over 400 crops.

CITRIS Research on Ag-Food-Tech, or CRAFT, hosts the Ag-Bag for industry leaders to speak with faculty, Ag-Food-Tech roundtables to learn from industry leaders, and other events and programs.

Funded in 2021 by the University of California Office of the President Multi-Campus Research Program Initiative, the Labor and Automation in California Agriculture (LACA) assembles interdisciplinary researchers to solve food system resilience and human-centered agriculture technology to transform the workforce and environment of the future. This MRPI includes researchers from University of California Mercerd, Berkeley, Davis, and Riverside.

Building a future in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley means participating in the most productive agricultural area in the world. This program will help students explore opportunities in multiple aspects of agriculture. Students will learn about agriculture generally, from production to mechanical harvesting and processing, from massive processing plants to small farm stands.

A new article, "The Future of Machines" covers key areas of UC Merced research: Addressing the Drought, Introducing RAPID, Preparing for the Future, Drinking in the Data, Gettng on Board, and On the Road to the Future.

Integrated Data Enabled Water (DEW) Trade research, extension, & education will accelerate the adoption of agricultural & water technologies, frameworks and institutions to sustain and to increase flexibility of agrosystems and dependent communities.