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A man wearing a blue shirt and black cap gets a vaccine shot by a health care worker.

Grassroots organizations tackle vaccine misinformation in farmworker communities

COVID-19

As COVID-19 vaccine rollouts continue across the US, grassroots organizations are fighting not only vaccine access inequities — but also misinformation and skepticism among immigrant groups and communities of color. 

A farmworker, considered an essential worker under the current COVID-19 pandemic, harvests beans, May 12, 2020, in Homestead, Florida.

Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.

COVID-19
Migrant farmworkers harvest corn

Migrant farmworkers in US deemed essential — but lack basic protections

Justice
Farmworkers in a field

Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?

COVID-19
Workers wash and dry chopped lettuce at a Taylor Farms processing plant in Salinas, California on September 10, 2019. In recent years, the company has started incorporating automation in its facility.

How immigrant workers are preparing for automation in agriculture

Global Nation Education
Campesinos working in Tlalquiltenango, Morelos, Mexico. 

Why food insecurity is a global farmworker issue

A new United Nations report outlines how low wages, dangerous working conditions, and immigration laws undermine agricultural workers’ right to food.

Javier picks cherries

Researchers explore a pesticide link to asthma in farmworkers’ children

Environment

When Azul was five, doctors finally figured out the little girl had asthma. That’s become a big problem among children of farm workers, says Dr. Catherine Karr of the University of Washington. 

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How this clinic has changed a nation’s view of family planning

Health

Both women and men go to this health clinic, where both hear about IUDs and other methods of family planning in a nation with a large number of unintended pregnancies.

Farm book

What’s it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them.

Books

“I’ll never feel the same about berries,” says Seth Holmes. In “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies,” he describes the bone-crushing work that he and Mexican migrant workers did to put fruit and vegetables on your table.

U.S. agricultural industry hopes immigration reform fixes worker predicament

Global Politics

Immigration reform is a top priority for Republicans and Democrats in the current political term. Both agree that something needs to be done. Farmers and agricultural industry types hope that their agreement includes fixing the guest worker program. But some immigrant activists say that’s not such a good idea.