Extreme weather events make it difficult for California farmworkers to put food on their own tables
Extreme weather events, including the recent rains and last summer's heat, have taken on toll on some of the crops.
Source: wbur.org
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Immigrant worker shot to death by police at Oklahoma meatpacking plant
A worker who filmed the incident said Chiewalthap Mariar was fired by his supervisor and then told to finish his shift by human resources. Workers were kept on the job by management after the shooting.
United States Chiewelthap Mariar Chiewalthap Mariar Environment Reporting Network Associated Press Seaboard Corporation
Source: wsws.org
Reformist farmers in California are rethinking water
Reformist farmers in California have deposed the leader of the country's biggest irrigation district, who was known for fighting water regulations. Farmers are accepting less water means less farming.
Source: npr.org
Learn to identify food insecurity issues and solutions in your community at National Press Club Journalism Institute training, Oct. 21
/PRNewswire/ -- Most people know what it is to feel hungry. But persistent hunger and a lack of access to convenient and affordable healthy foods is something...
Source: prnewswire.com
Learn to identify food insecurity issues and solutions in your community at National Press Club Journalism Institute training, Oct. 21
/PRNewswire/ -- Most people know what it is to feel hungry. But persistent hunger and a lack of access to convenient and affordable healthy foods is something...
Source: prnewswire.com
Racism Robbed This Historically Black California Town of Its Water. Now, They're Developing Water of Their Own
Allensworth residents are using a new technology to pull ambient moisture from the air for a community source of clean water.
Source: kqed.org
Hunger advocates want free school meals for all kids. It's tough sell in Congress
The idea is simple: Pay for every childs meal and reach the kids who might go hungry because of missed paperwork or stigma. Heres how advocates are pushing to keep the idea on the national agenda.
Source: northcountrypublicradio.org
As heat rises, who will protect farmworkers?
Last June, as a record-breaking heatwave baked Oregon's Willamette Valley, Sebastian Francisco Perez was moving irrigation lines at a large pl...
Source: ncronline.org
Farm and Food: Our money, their mouth, your choice
Guebert discusses the highly detailed, little publicized "Blueprint to Save America" alternate budget by the House Republican Study Committee.
United States White House District Of Columbia Alan Guebert Us Department Of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Source: southbendtribune.com
Farm and Food: Our money, their mouth, your choice
If the political polls are to be believed, November’s midterm election will sweep today’s Democrats out of power in the U.S. House of Representatives.
United States White House District Of Columbia Alan Guebert Us Department Of Agriculture National School Lunch Standards
Source: thehawkeye.com