Lucas Benitez representing the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
A short interview with CIW representative Lucas Benitez on working conditions, worker’s rights, health and wage issues and the Campaign for Fair Food.
GRACE Communications Foundation
food and agricultural labor
All is Fair (Trade) in Love and Chocolate
In which the GRACE team tastes and rates 11 brands of Fair Trade, Organic and Rainforest Certified chocolates. Buying Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance Certified chocolates is an easy way to ensure that your purchasing power supports chocolate growers with sound human rights policies.
Where’s the Love, Hershey? On Chocolate and Labor
Ecocentric writer Chris Hunt, who doesn’t care much for chocolate, is an unlikely choice of authors for a Valentine’s Day chocolate post. He does, however, have one important qualification: he cares about preventing slave labor.
Where's the Love Hershey? On Chocolate and Labor (Part II)
Maybe February should be "Child Labor Month." If you read Chris Hunt's blog post "Where's the Love, Hershey? On Chocolate and Labor," or if you're familiar with the atrocities that take place in cocoa fields in the Global South, then you will know that child labor is a reality in the chocolate industry today.
New Farmers
Although the average age of US farmers continues to rise, many young people are starting to pursue careers in sustainable agriculture.
Workers
Farmworkers and other food sector employees have the critical responsibility of feeding our nation. Learn about the deplorable working conditions they often face.
Community and Economy
Factory farms make terrible neighbors. Learn how industrial agriculture affects surrounding communities and local economies.
United Farm Workers
Founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first successful and largest farm workers union currently active in 10 states. The UFW continues to organize in major agricultural industries across the nation.
Impacts of Industrial Agriculture
Learn how industrial agriculture damages the environment, threatens human health, degrades rural communities, harms workers, and compromises animal welfare.
Now with More Integrity: Chipotle Joins Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program
In October, after years of pressure from conscientious eaters, Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill signed an agreement to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program. The company, which prides itself on "food with integrity," has made a giant step toward real sustainability.
Coalition for Immokalee Workers
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Coalition for Immokalee Workers
The CIW is a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
United Food and Commercial Workers
Our union is founded on workers empowering workers to unite and find their voice. We are made up of more than 1.3 million people working primarily in grocery and retail stores, and in the food processing and meat packing industries. Together, we are proud to put the food on America’s tables.
Farmworker Justice
Farmworker Justice is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.
Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food (A Book Review)
Connecting our global food with global markets, journalist Fred Kaufman forges a new way of thinking about food prices and food systems in his engaging, informative new book Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food. Spoiler alert: we liked it. Read on!
Hey Big Food, We're Watching: Oxfam Ranks the World's Largest Companies
What do we know about the giant food companies' social and environmental practices even as they produce so many of the familiar food products we buy and eat every day? According to Oxfam's "Behind the Brands" campaign, we don't know enough, and what we do know is a bit troubling.
