COAR Transitions is a research, education, and policy initiative across five UC campuses and UC ANR with the goal of contributing to the creation of more resilient food systems and food sovereignty in California. This work is done through expanding and aligning knowledge and networks that support transitions toward these types of systems. We understand COAR transitions as constituting, but not limited to, a suite of principles, practices, and processes (e.g., crop and landscape diversification, cover cropping, crop-livestock integration, decentralized regional composting, beneficial uses of fire, salmon revitalization, and circular economies) that land stewards, farmers, farmworkers, Tribes, community organizations, and others enact within a particular landscape context.