Plantations are having trouble finding young labourers to sustain production. Precarious working conditions that have hardly evolved since colonial times are a poignant reminder of the lack of job attractivity.
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Young urban farmers in Khayelitsha are nurturing connections, creating economic opportunities, and promoting environmental conservation.
Global climates are changing and the world is rapidly warming. Canada’s labour laws must keep pace with the rate of change to protect workers.
Green reforms are piling additional pressure on farmers struggling to make ends meet.
Climate change is affecting the availability of food to the families of farmers in Ghana.
Often overlooked in the immigration debate are the contributions of migrants, such as how they helped organize workers in the 1990s.
Undocumented migrant workers use Photovoice to share their experience working and living in Greece.
Most Indian farmers are women. But few own their land, and gender inequality limits their access to markets. These issues won’t be fixed by recent agricultural reforms; in fact, they may get worse.
Agricultural investments could play a role in reducing poverty and improving food security.
COVID-19 may not discriminate, but Canadian policy does. Income support during the pandemic must be extended to everyone, including migrant and undocumented workers.
Chartering flights during travel bans and national lockdowns is a dangerous reminder of how exploitative labour overrides political and public health responsibility.
Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.
Like Japan, the UK is facing an ageing population that is compounding other problems putting pressure on the labour market.
A new report by the Migration Advisory Committee on the impact of EU migration on the UK has highlighted the reliance of farms on migrant labour.
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Victoria
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor, Temple University
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Graduate Student, UMass Boston
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Senior Teaching Associate, Migration Studies and Politics, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
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Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, University of Leeds; University of the Western Cape
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