The report is sobering, and its authors - United Farm Workers of America and the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation - say their findings point to an urgent need for new, enforceable standards for farm work that can be supported by both individual consumers and socially responsible corporations. This week, in a fitting tribute to Cesar Chávez, the union that the farmworker leader co-founded in 1962 joined with a Palo Alto-based food service company to release a groundbreaking report describing the current status of the nation’s 1.4 million farmworkers, and calling for fundamental changes to improve farmworker welfare. West Africa: Organic cotton & increased yields.Urban farming in Oakland: Kosodate Farms.Deficit irrigation: Masumoto Family Farm.Biological pest controls: Uncle Matt's Organics.
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