3 A Green New Deal for Agriculture

Patel, Raj; Goodman, Jim

doi:10.7312/calh20556-004

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“…Like work requirements, current farm subsidies disincentivize farm owners from earning revenue above a certain limit. Less centralized approaches have been proposed as possible solutions to address food system inequity and environmentally sound farming practices including social contracts between farmer and non-farmer (Graddy-Lovelace 2021) and parity pricing (Patel and Goodman 2019). Other solutions include financial institutions and fair financing options accessible to farmworkers to help establish and build credit and support during the agricultural off-season.…”

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confidence: 99%

Something to eat: experiences of food insecurity on the farm

et al. 2023

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The health of farm owners and farmworkers has significant impacts on farm businesses, farming families, and local rural communities where agriculture is an important driver of social and economic activity. Rural residents and farmworkers have higher rates of food insecurity, but little is known about food insecurity among farm owners and the collective experiences of farm owners and farmworkers. Researchers and public health practitioners have stressed the need for policies that target the health and well-being of farm owners and farmworkers while remaining sensitive to the nature of life on the farm, yet farm owner and farmworker lived experiences have been understudied, especially in relation to one another. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 farm owners and 18 farmworkers in Oregon. Modified grounded theory was used to analyze interview data. Data were coded using a three-stage process to identify salient core characteristics of food insecurity. Farm owner and farmworker meanings and interpretations of their food insecurity were often contradicted by evaluated food security scores using validated quantitative measures. According to such measures, 17 experienced high food security, 3 had marginal food security, and 11 had low food security, but narrative experiences suggested higher rates. Narrative experiences were categorized by core characteristics of food insecurity, including seasonal food shortages, resource stretching, working extended hours most days of the week, limited use of food assistance, and the tendency to downplay hardship. These unique factors have important implications for developing responsive policies and programs to support the health and well-being of farm livelihoods whose work enables health and well-being among consumers. Future studies to test the relationships between the core characteristics of food insecurity identified in this study and farm owner and farmworker meanings and interpretations of food insecurity, hunger, and nourishment are warranted.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%