The California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research is a dynamic program of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of the University of California, Davis that creates opportunities for collaboration, multidisciplinary research, and technology exchange between the campus and the food and agricultural industries. It maintains its "finger on the pulse" of innovations, advanced technologies, and industrial practices utilizing its academic base, global group of industrial member affiliates and its Food Foresight strategic planning collaboration. CIFAR leverages the many programs and expertise of the campus to bring value to its industrial member base. It provides essential information in areas of new product development for health and well-being, sustainable and complete resource management in food processing operations, and production of biofuels and bioproducts from food "wastes." CIFAR's international network extends to Asian, European and South Americanparticipants linked through our UC Davis-based food and agricultural research community. The California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research (CIFAR) was established in 1991 by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science at the University of California at Davis.

Mission To create opportunities for collaboration, multidisciplinary research and technology exchange between UC Davis and the food and agriculture industries. Vision: In collaboration with a breadth of strategic partners in the agri-food industry and academia, CIFAR facilitates research in agri-food technologies and energy resource management that can be effectively transferred and applied to the US food industry for achievement of sustained, global competitiveness.