Agricultural Labor Management, University of California
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/
This comprehensive website, developed by Gregorio Billikopf Encina (UCCE Specialist) offers a number of downloadable books, research papers, articles, audio seminars, electronic discussion groups, bulletin boards, and other resources. His book, Labor Management in Agriculture, is available for free as a pdf and is an excellent resource. The site and information is also available in Spanish.
Ag Help Wanted: Guidelines for Managing Agricultural Labor
http://aghelpwanted.org/
This book, written by Howard Rosenberg et al, is another excellent general management resource that is available at no cost online.
Agricultural Personnel Management Program, UC Berkeley
http://apmp.berkeley.edu/
This site is an information center on farm employment, management, and policy issues of interest to agricultural employers, hired managers and supervisors, service providers, grower and worker association leaders, educators, students, researchers, and public agency staff. This is the place to go for current news about labor-related issues as well as tools, guidelines and other information related to major areas of human resource management practice in agriculture.
Standards and Certification programs
The Agricultural Justice Project (AJP)
http://www.cata-farmworkers.org/ajp/
The AJP is a collaboration of organizations that has developed a set of social justice standards for organic and sustainable agriculture. In the summer of 2006, the Local Fair Trade Network and the AJP created a Domestic Fair Trade label. Two co-ops and five farms in the Upper Midwest will serve as the subjects of a pilot project that will develop a certification process for the standards developed by AJP.
California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA)
http://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/
The CSWA promotes vineyard and winery practices that are sensitive to the environment, responsive to the needs and interests of society-at-large, and economically feasible to implement and maintain. They have an online Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices workbook with 14 self-assessment chapters that translate sustainability principles into specific winegrowing and winemaking practices, including labor management and community responsibility.
Central Coast Vineyard Team
http://www.vineyardteam.org/
A non-profit grower-group with a mission to promote sustainable winegrowing on the Central Coast, the CCVT has created a Positive Points Systemä that guides growers towards more sustainable practices and quantifies the adoption of sustainable farming practices used in Central Coast vineyards.
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
http://www.ifoam.org
Among its wide range of activities, IFOAM maintains a worldwide organic farming standard and an organic certification service. Their basic organic standards, unlike those developed by the USDA, include standards relating to labor and working conditions.
Food Alliance
http://www.foodalliance.org/
Food Alliance is a nonprofit, third-party certification program that promotes sustainable agriculture by recognizing and rewarding farmers who produce food in environmentally friendly and socially responsible ways, and educating consumers and others in the food system about the benefits of sustainable agriculture.
Lodi Rules
http://www.lodiwine.com/lodirules_home1.shtml
The Lodi Rules are California's first sustainable winegrowing standards that have been peer reviewed by scientists, academics and environmentalists and being implemented on a region-wide basis. The Lodi Rules are designed to lead to measurable improvements in environmental health of the surrounding ecosystem, society-at-large, and wine quality. Participating growers can get their vineyards certified as producing sustainably-grown winegrapes.
Scientific Certification Systems
http://www.scscertified.com/
SCS is a third-party provider of certification services that aims to recognize the highest levels of performance in food safety and quality, environmental protection and social responsibility in the private and public sectors. SCS is in the process of developing a National Sustainable Agriculture Standard that will include fair labor practices standards. SCS already offers numerous certification programs that include social responsibility standards including Fair Labor Practices and Community Benefits and Veriflora.
Socially Accountable Farm Employers (SAFE)
http://www.safeagemployer.org/
SAFE is a nonprofit organization that provides independent auditing and certification of fair, lawful farm labor practices in the agriculture industry. SAFE’s Code of Conduct outlines the responsible labor practices it certifies.