pcusa.org/news-storyte... - A new article by the Presbyterian News Service / @pcusa.bsky.social takes a deep-dive into the Fair Food Program, and how its protections are helping keep farmworker mothers and infants healthy

A peer-reviewed study finds that infants born to farmworkers on Fair Food Program farms are 10% less likely to be born at a low birth weight. Read more: ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our screening and discussion of "Without Shade, Without Rest" earlier this week! Read The Brown Daily Herald's coverage ⤵️ @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @climatesollab.bsky.social @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social @working-films.bsky.social

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04... “Despite Sen. Booker’s letter... an official resolution from the Yale College Council, a petition signed by hundreds of students, and no clear reason for not joining the program, Yale Hospitality has refused to take any good-faith steps toward joining the FFP"

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04... Read about how the CIW's internal, democratic structure has helped it to remain resilient throughout the years, and how farmworkers managed to forge the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social to safeguard their rights based on their own experiences in the fields.

In a letter to Yale, @booker.senate.gov urging the school to join the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social , the Senator writes: “...I write to urge Yale Hospitality to join the FFP... Yale has long been a leader in both scholarship and social responsibility.” Read more: yaledailynews.com/articles/in-...

Students at Yale University are turning up the heat on their administration to ensure that the food served at their historic university meets the highest human rights standards in the agricultural industry by joining the Fair Food Program! Read More: ciw-online.org/blog/2026/04...

"A peer-reviewed study finds that infants born to farmworkers on Fair Food Program farms are 10% less likely to be born at a low birth weight." Read more about the myriad benefits the Fair Food Program is bringing to thousands of farmworker families in The Packer: www.thepacker.com/news/new-res...

"Nely Rodríguez knows the costs of silence – and of having to endure the privileges often taken by men with power." Read about how farmworkers forged the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social in @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

Have you ever dreamed of working on the cutting edge of human rights? The exponential expansion of the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social is creating new job openings! We're currently hiring for a Worker Education Coordinator. Click here to learn more: ciw-online.org/careers/

The @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social is one the country’s “most robust… and protective programs” in the US, and a ‘game changer” for women farmworkers, according to the Associated Press: ciw-online.org/blog/2026/03...

Have you ever dreamed of working on the cutting edge of human rights? The exponential expansion of the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social is creating new job openings! We're currently hiring for a Worker Education Coordinator. Click here to learn more: ciw-online.org/careers/

@immokaleeworkers.bsky.social is a worker-based human rights organization founded by farmworkers to eliminate wage theft, forced labor and other abuses.

Have you ever dreamed of working on the cutting edge of human rights? The exponential expansion of the Fair Food Program is creating new job openings! APPLY HERE: www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...

One student urged the University to sign onto the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social, which enforces workplace protections. 80% of female farmworkers have experienced sexual harassment, and implementing the program at Michigan would help mitigate the issue. www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/03... @business-humanrights.org highlighting the solution: “Walmart is a member of the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social , a programme which covers farmworkers in the USA who are paid a premium to ensure a living wage.”

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/03... The study’s bottom line is simple: better pay, safer working conditions, and reduced stress during pregnancy translate directly into healthier mothers and healthier children. @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social

Calling all university students, faculty, and staff across the US! Do you want to stand with farmworkers in their fight for justice in the food industry? Reach out to join the call for your school to be part of the solution! ciw-online.org/blog/2026/02...

The workers that grow your house plants power a booming industry—yet many face exploitation. Change begins with The Planting Justice Campaign. Learn how your consumer power can help workers win fair pay, safe working conditions, and dignity on the job: demos.nyc/4ttVVGt

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/02... Nola De Graaf, a current student at the University of Michigan: “The best part of this program is that it is an organization that amplifies the voices of workers, not attempting to speak over them but rather making them the forefront of the organization..."

This stunning news comes as students with Yale’s Student/Farmworker Alliance chapter have repeatedly called on the university to join the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social READ MORE: ciw-online.org/blog/2026/01...

Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern's new book “goes under the hood of the Fair Food Program to tell a remarkable story of transformation and hope,” says the CIW. @cprmaxwell.bsky.social @sulernercenter.bsky.social

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/01... Will Work for Food: “With a combination of education, monitoring, and enforcement, the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social and the CIW have provided fertile ground for both preventing and addressing sexual violence in the workplace.”

ciw-online.org/blog/2026/01... Indian Sugar Workers Association (ISWA) release: “To remedy – and ultimately prevent – this outrageous exploitation, ISWA urgently calls on the global brands that purchase Indian sugar to engage with workers and collaborate..."

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/12... Without you, there would be no Fair Food Program—only a deferred dream of dignity for farmworkers forced instead to endure daily exploitation in the fields. Please consider making a one-time year-end contribution by December 31. secure.everyaction.com/D4tc-88lykCf...

As the year comes to a close, we want to share something with the rest of the Fair Food community that has deeply moved all of us here in Immokalee. ciw-online.org/blog/2025/12...

Help us keep the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social on the road! Your financial contribution today will support the purchase and maintenance of the vehicles needed to keep the Fair Food Program running — and growing — in the fields where it matters most. secure.everyaction.com/D4tc-88lykCf...

Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining. My latest for @propublica.org takes a close look at the program: www.propublica.org/article/fair...

Read the feature piece on the transformative impact of the Fair Food Program by @propublica.org here: www.propublica.org/article/fair...

Jon Esformes, CEO Pacific Tomato Growers and first major grower to join the FFP: “I’m not sitting here with my head in the sand saying we were squeaky clean before. We knew there were problems. We wanted them fixed.” ciw-online.org/blog/2025/12...

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/12... There is a cruel irony in this: The very farmworkers who harvest the fruits and vegetables that feed our nation are now struggling to feed their own families.

Kick off the holiday season of giving with a gift for farmworkers’ rights! Donate today! secure.everyaction.com/D4tc-88lykCf...

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/11... This Thanksgiving, you can help sustain the groundbreaking advances we’ve achieved through the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social, and give thanks for the women and men who put food on your Thanksgiving table, by becoming a Fair Food Sustainer

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/11... 30 years ago, the Immokalee farmworker community, the principal source of labor for Southwest Florida’s massive agricultural industry for several decades, came together across linguistic and cultural divisions and erupted in its first-ever general strike...

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/11... Ganga Sekar, a coordinator of ISWA: “By coming together, sugar workers break the silence around long-standing abuses and begin to build the trust, confidence, and collective voice needed to support a rights-based program like the Fair Food Program.”

Yale Student Farmworker Alliance in Yale Daily News: "It is unacceptable that Yale backs away from fair and humane conditions in its supply chain when a program exists which can guarantee them." READ MORE: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/10... Take a look inside the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social's expansion in South Africa, and read about the intensive training for the Program's human rights investigators and educators!

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/09... Thanks to the generosity of nearly 500 donors, we have already raised over $26,000. These funds are now in the process of being transferred directly to Mr. Guevara’s widow to help with the many unexpected expenses the family is facing...

H-2A visas are certain to remain in high demand, experts say. But without reform, instances of abuse and exploitation of migrant farmworkers are likely to increase too. Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.

In 2021, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor as part of a federal investigation that exposed widespread abuses of H-2A workers across Georgia. This is the story of what one of those workers endured. By @maxblau.bsky.social

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/09... “… Agents had been following leads from an anti-trafficking organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, that in 2015 had uncovered the abuses of harvesters at an onion farm near Vidalia. That collaboration enabled the agents to expand their investigation.”

The life-saving "heat-illness protection protocol US agriculture deserves" found within the Fair Food Program are featured by Fresh Fruit Portal today. www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2025/09...

In the wake of this unimaginable loss, his family must now navigate the painful return of his body to Mexico and the burden of medical and legal costs. To help Mr. Guevara’s family in their time of need, we are re-sharing this fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

Late last week, we shared the news that Immokalee-area farmworker Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara had been hospitalized after collapsing from heat stroke in Florida’s fields. Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend. ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...

www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo... Marco Guevara, proud father of 3 and husband, succumbs to heat on Immokalee area farm, lies fighting for his life in Naples hospital. You can help: GoFundMe effort launched by Immokalee area pastor...

For part 3 of our series highlighting key sections of the FFP’s recently released 2024 “State of the Program” report, we want to hone in on one of the features of the FFP model that sets it apart as the “new gold standard” in human rights enforcement today. ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...

Fair Food Program reaches major landmark: Over $50 million in Fair Food Premium — aka the “Penny per Pound” — has been paid by Participating Buyers to improve farmworkers’ income on participating farms. Read more here! ciw-online.org/blog/2025/07...

As the @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social continues to ramp up its national expansion — while simultaneously growing its international footprint, as well — the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC) has released its latest report on the FFP. Read it now! ciw-online.org/blog/2025/07...

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/07... From everyone in the CIW and FFP, we want to congratulate @greymoran.bsky.social on their well-deserved recognition! @civileats.com

ciw-online.org/blog/2025/07... The New York Times: “… [L]abor leaders are also pressuring multinational companies to join a labor-standards program modeled after the Fair Food Program, which has improved conditions for American agricultural workers.”