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Fair Trade (1)
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Bringing Fair Trade HomeCategory: Fair Trade
Posted On Thursday, 08 March 2012
California is at the leading edge of demographic change in the United States, as the state’s cities, suburbs, and rural towns are inhabited by million...
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Immigration (2)
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Latino Placemaking in California and BeyondCategory: Immigration
Posted On Friday, 09 March 2012
California is at the leading edge of demographic change in the United States, as the state’s cities, suburbs, and rural towns are inhabited by milli...
2011: Securer Communities, Safer Neighborhoods?Category: Immigration
Posted On Friday, 30 December 2011
In 2011, some notable government actions influenced immigration policy across the US. The federal Secure Communities program came under fire, fi...
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Food Insecurity / Food Deserts (2)
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Food Insecurity among Farm Workers in the Salinas Valley, CaliforniaCategory: Food Insecurity / Food Deserts
Posted On Friday, 02 December 2011
The Salinas Valley, in Monterey County, with dark, rich soils highlighted by contrasting rows of greens invokes a picture perfect image of California ...
Hunger in the FieldsCategory: Food Insecurity / Food Deserts
Posted On Friday, 28 October 2011
Gail Wadsworth and Lisa Kresge
“The green grass spreads right into the tent doorways and the orange trees are loaded. In the cotton fie...
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Rural California (14)
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"Valley of Shadows and Dreams"Category: Rural California
Posted On Monday, 07 May 2012
"Valley of Shadows and Dreams" documents the conflicting reality for people living in California's Central Valley. Photographer Ken Light ...
The Central Valley: Rising Like a Phoenix?Category: Rural California > Rural Health
Posted On Monday, 30 April 2012
The poverty of the Central Valley of California and the abundance of the region’s agriculture is a conundrum. Even though there has been a decrease ...
Production and Poverty ParadoxCategory: Rural California
Posted On Monday, 09 April 2012
The San Joaquin Valley is the agricultural powerhouse of the United States and California. California accounts for an eighth of U.S. farm sales, lar...
Rural Housing in the Crosshairs: New Challenges and New OpportunitiesCategory: Rural California
Posted On Friday, 02 March 2012
For decades, the rural housing program has been a mainstay of national and state efforts to improve the living conditions of low-income people in th...
Would it Make Fiscal Sense?Category: Rural California
Posted On Friday, 24 February 2012
This posting is reproduced from the Stockton Record dated February 24, 2012
Bankruptcy for Vallejo was a messy, demoralizing ordeal that saw an exo...
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Farming (10)
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Proposed Law Would Keep California Farmworkers From OverheatingCategory: Farming > Farm Labor
Posted On Monday, 14 May 2012
In most jobs, if you have to spend even part of your workday exerting yourself under the hot summer sun, you’re likely to have drinking water nea...
Barriers Faced by Young Beginning FarmersCategory: Farming
Posted On Monday, 23 April 2012
The National Young Farmer’s Coalition recently released a report showing that the nation’s young and beginning farmers face tremendous barriers in s...
Farmworker Inventory Details the Situation in the FieldCategory: Farming > Farm Labor
Posted On Monday, 16 April 2012
Last week, two elderly farmworkers took the brave and very unusual step of suing their employer, an onion grower in the Coachella Valley, for violat...
First do good work. Then define good. And then tell the world all about it.Category: Farming
Posted On Monday, 02 April 2012
In the early 1970s, Geraldine Bardin chose to sell her family farm to an upstart community development corporation. She lit a spark that has provide...
Double Invisibility: Forgotten in the Fields and at HomeCategory: Farming > Farm Labor
Posted On Saturday, 24 March 2012
There are many heat stress prevention strategies for farmworkers that focus on correcting either individual behaviors (e.g., avoiding caff...
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Uncategorized (4)
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Values-Based Distribution Networks: California Case StudiesCategory: Uncategorized
Posted On Friday, 23 December 2011
By Gail Feenstra*, David Visher*, and Shermain Hardesty**
A recent study by University of California researchers examines factors that influence the ...
Food Movements Unite: The Coalition of Immokalee WorkersCategory: Uncategorized
Posted On Friday, 18 November 2011
The following excerpts are from Chapter Nine of the new book: Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food System, edited by Eric Holt-Gim...
Agritourism Holds Opportunities for Rural Areas and Regulatory Environment Poses Challenges for FarmersCategory: Uncategorized > Agritourism
Posted On Friday, 04 November 2011
Although most of us have probably participated in agritourism at some point in our lives, not everyone may be familiar with the meaning of term agrito...
Welcome back to the Rural California Report!Category: Uncategorized
Posted On Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The RCR was started in 1989 to serve as an outlet for articles, descriptions of new publications and a clearing house for information on rural labor a...
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