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A majority of the nation’s 2.5 million farmworkers are undocumented immigrants. Recent and proposed changes in immigration policy are having a significant impact on farmworkers’ daily lives and livelihoods, as well as on the industries in which they work. In … Read more Borders: National Farmworker Awareness Week 2017

From 2000 to 2014, Latinos accounted for over half of all population growth in the US. Although birth and immigration rates among Latinos have slowed since the Great Recession, as of 2014 Latinos made up 17% of the general US … Read more Culture: National Farmworker Awareness Week 2017

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued a statement, released on December 19, following a visit to the United States by Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and … Read more UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons Concerned about H-2A Guestworker Program

July 12, 2016 The people who spend their days picking fruits and vegetables are struggling to find food for their own families. Numerous studies across the United States have thoroughly documented the staggering rates of both hunger and food insecurity … Read more Hunger amidst plenty: Food assistance in farmworker communities

Today's guest blog is written by Peter O'Driscoll, Executive Director of the Equitable Food Initiative.  The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) brings together workers, growers and retailers in the effort to produce better fruits and vegetables. As produce farms comply with … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Transforming the Produce Industry

"When we began our first interview, Demetrio seemed a little detached. He answered yes or no to most of our questions; however, when we began asking more about his family, we saw his eyes tell a different story. Demetrio told … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Separation of Families

The following is a guest blog by John Menditto, General Counsel and Director of Risk Management, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project. For more than forty years, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project  has been celebrating and educating the farmworker … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Celebrating and Educating the Farmworker Child

On this day of National Farmworker Awareness Week we celebrate women in farmworker communities by showcasing the work of one of our community partners. Lideres Campesinas, a community organization founded and run by women, is based in Oxnard, CA. Lideres … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Women in the Fields

Carly Fox is a Worker Rights Advocate who organizes dairy workers in the Workplace Justice Program at the Worker Justice Center of NY. Carly wrote this guest blog for National Farmworker Awareness Week. New York State’s dairy industry is booming … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Farmworker Life

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to increase access to health care and health insurance for the country’s most vulnerable and underserved populations. Unfortunately, farmworkers and their families, perhaps one of the most vulnerable and underserved populations … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Invisibility in Health Access