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Fighting for Farm Workers’ Rights for More Than 40 Years

By: Monday July 19, 2010 7:46 am

This is the first of three parts of an interview with Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. In Part One, Mr. Velasquez describes the biggest challenges and abuses farm workers face in the U.S., and what it was like for his family to work in America’s agricultural sector. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

A Conversation About Organic Agriculture with Chuck Benbrook

By: Friday July 16, 2010 7:42 am

In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Chuck Benbrook, Chief Scientist at the Organic Center.

Depending on A Global Workforce

By: Friday July 2, 2010 9:48 am

This is the second and third parts in a series of blogs Nourishing the Planet will be writing about workers in the food system. Nourishing the Planet research intern Ronit Ridberg recently spoke with Erik Nicholson, National VP of the United Farm Workers of America. In the first part of this two-part interview, Erik talks about the global agricultural system and the role American consumers play in it. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Working with the Root

By: Wednesday June 23, 2010 8:33 am

The following is an eight-part series about Danielle Nierenberg’s visit to the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (ECASARD) in Ghana. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

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