Green reforms are piling additional pressure on farmers struggling to make ends meet.
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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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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Research Fellow, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Senior Teaching Associate, Migration Studies and Politics, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor, Temple University
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
