USDA and nutrition program delays created hurdles during the weekslong shutdown
The Gulf of Alaska has become one of the world’s most economically productive commercial fisheries. But in Kodiak, Indigenous leaders, community growers, and grassroots food cooperatives are helping neighbors value homegrown produce
Local organizations in the historically Black neighborhood of South End are using food and wellness to make sure no one goes unseen
From the U.S. to Gaza, Palestinians are leading efforts to sustain culture and ancestral connection through farming
Food production systems that put quality over quantity are considered a revolutionary act by organizers. Decades of federal policy have pushed out young farmers and farmers of color in favor of propping up a few names in the agricultural industry. Corporate control of the food supply chain breeds fallout for
Agriculture is rife with labor violations and abuse, but thanks to a new rule going into effect this month, the industry’s most vulnerable migrant H-2A workers now have better protections to organize against unfair treatment from American employers. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program allows American employers to bring migrant
The industrialization of tobacco in the U.S. encompasses colonization, slavery, and its latest victim: migrant farmworkers
There is an unbroken line from the economic conditions developed to protect chattel slavery to the legal structures that allow for the abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers today
The legislation has strayed far from its initial model of labor-minded price floors and supply management to creep into the corners of federal institutions where structural racism thrives
Those who tout the “benefits” of child labor reinforce white supremacist, capitalist systems that are rooted in American slavery
So long as California’s government resists recognizing the deep roots of racial injustice and its intersection with climate injustice, green initiatives will continue to fall short
Farmworkers in California are losing income due to drought and extreme weather but have little support from the state
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