Food and Farm Labor

Seafood processing in Indonesia. (Photo credit: Adrian Mulya/The Sustainable Seafood Alliance Indonesia)

There’s Tremendous Human Suffering Behind Our Food. It’s Time to End It.

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06.20.18
Rosa Hernandez prepares chicken for mole, while Sylvia Rojas makes tortillas -- about 70 a day. (Photo credit: Lisa Morehouse)

Immigrant Women are Providing a Taste of Oaxaca in California’s Central Valley

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06.15.18
Illustration by Justin Tran.

Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op

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05.25.18

Meet the Farmworkers Leading the #MeToo Fight For Workers Everywhere

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05.21.18
jillian hishaw in the farm field

Jillian Hishaw Wants to Help Black Farmers Stay on Their Land

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05.04.18
spyce's robot restaurant

Will Robot-Led Restaurants Be a Gift or a Curse to Food Workers?

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05.03.18
latino farmers talking

Launching the Next Generation of Latinx Farmers in Washington’s Skagit Valley

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04.26.18
Farmworkers march for justice

Florida’s Farmworkers Take Their Fight to Park Avenue

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03.19.18

There’s a Nationwide Cook Shortage. Culinary Training Programs to the Rescue.

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02.06.18
Sana Javeri Kadri. (Photo by Laila Bahman)

A Queer, Female Entrepreneur is Taking Back Turmeric for Indian Farmers

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02.01.18
Clara and Eliot Coleman.

Second-Gen Farmers May Inherit Family Farms, But Do They Face Fewer Hurdles?

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01.30.18
immigrant cookbook photos

A Cookbook Highlights the Power of Immigrants to Make Positive Change

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01.29.18

New ‘Bracero’ Bill Could Cut Agriculture Workers’ Rights and Wages

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01.05.18
Shantel Walker, Fight for $15

How a Fast Food Worker Became an Activist

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01.02.18

An App for Farmworkers’ Rights Makes its Way Into the Fields

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12.04.17
The Coffey Park subdivision of Santa Rosa was one of the hardest hit neighborhoods with at least 1300 homes destroyed and several deaths (unknown how many as authorities still searching ruins). The fire, which started off of Mark West Springs Road swept through the Larkfield Wikiup neighborhoods and then jumped Highway 101 into Coffey Park. (Photo credit: Anne Belden)

From Sonoma County’s Ashes, a Fund for Undocumented Immigrants Rises

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11.27.17

Easy as Pie? Family Apple Farms Persist Against the Odds

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11.14.17

Dolores Huerta is Still Fighting for Farmworkers’ Rights

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11.09.17