[caption id="attachment_38254" align="aligncenter" width="900"] With the Smoky Mountains in the background, farmworkers with the CIW provide an early morning, worker-to-worker education session at a Pacific Tomato Growers farm in Tennessee in July, 2024.[/caption] This summer, like so many now before it, has brought deadly heat across much of the world. And with the rising heat and climate instability comes compounding >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_28339" align="aligncenter" width="800"] An auditor with the Fair Food Standards Council interviews a farmworker as part of the Fair Food Program[/caption] Vox: “A binding contract is crucial to worker-driven social responsibility, a sharp contrast to those toothless corporate social responsibility initiatives.” Lucas Benitez, farmworker and co-founder of the CIW: “With [worker-driven social responsibility], we’re no longer letting the foxes >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_38188" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Cruz Salucio of the CIW speaks at last week's press conference at Rancho Durazno in Colorado[/caption] Fair Food Program set to expand to 27 more farms, 13 more states with support from United States Department of Agriculture USDA announcement marks latest instance of CIW/FFP innovations adopted as policy by the public sector  USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack: >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_30582" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Representatives from women’s organizations and unions based in Lesotho gather for a photo with representatives of the CIW, the Fair Food Standards Council, Workers Rights Consortium and the Solidarity Center in Immokalee to commemorate a two-day exchange in November 2018 to study the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model and the CIW’s Fair Food Program. The visitors >> Read More

The much-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary “Food, Inc.” will hold a nationwide "sneak preview" at 100 theaters across the US on April 9th, ahead of its national theatrical and digital release on April 12 ! Click on this link to see which theaters near you are screening “Food, Inc. 2” on April 9! Major cities hosting screenings include: >> Read More