working landscapes

Projects

Current work
  • USDA AMS: CA Meat Supply Chains
    • FORMAL TITLE: Creating High Value Market Opportunities for California’s Small- and Mid-Scale Meat Producers.  (USDA AMS Grant #AM21RFSPCA1023-00)
    • PROJECT GOAL: Develop regional partnerships and supply chains in two regions of California, and the information tools to support them. 
    • DESCRIPTION: Our July 2021 UC Davis Food Systems Lab (FSL) study derived from interviews with over 30 supply chain stakeholders, a literature review and

About The Food Systems Lab

The Food Systems Lab has grown from our group's roots in sustainable sourcing and regional landscape assessment into a program on developing and improving the information management aspects of food system sustainability, in addition to continuing our core research areas.  The primary focus of this cross-cutting informatics work is to improve how sustainability can be defined, measured, and operationalized by improving information management and connectivity among complex webs of challenges, data, and actors.  

Our group has four focus areas: