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2. National food security, immigration reform, and the importance of worker engagement in agricultural guestworker debates
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zoodsma, Anna (author), Dudley, Mary Jo (author), and Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-08
- Published:
- USA: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12646
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 11, N.4
- Notes:
- 13 pages, This article looks at the United States’ federal H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visa Program and reforms proposed by the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. In this policy analysis, we draw on media content analysis and qualitative interviews to compare the viewpoints of farmers, workers, grower and worker advocacy groups, intermediary agents, and politicians. We find that perspectives on the program are dependent upon actors’ level of direct interaction with workers. Moderate-sized farmers and regionally based worker advocacy groups tend to be the most concerned with day-to-day program operations and fair working conditions. In contrast, national-level advocacy groups, intermediary agents, and politicians are less critical of the program and seek to broadly expand farmer access to guestworkers, justifying proposed program reforms with discourses of national food security and immigration reform. Ultimately, we suggest that engaging a food systems lens to understand these policies provides a more nuanced perspective, addressing national food security and immigration as related issues.
3. Study on training scheme for new farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tang, Ming-xia (author), Yuan, Chun-xin (author), and Jiang, Yong-pint (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- China
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 187 Document Number: D01025
- Journal Title:
- Asian Agricultural Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(7) : 58-61
4. Sugar beet language
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davidson, Levette J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1930-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07498
- Journal Title:
- American Speech
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (1): 10-15
5. This is why farmers feel threatened by Biden, Congress
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wilson, Mike (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12148
- Journal Title:
- Farm Futures
- Notes:
- Online from publication 8 pages., Article highlights findings of a Farm Futures post-election survey among U.S. farmers. They show that nearly 90 percent of farmers believe taxes will go up under the Biden administration, 71% believe WOTUS will be overturned, and 22% believe markets will stabilize with a new trade strategy. "And four of every five farmers believe there will be less government ad hoc funds going to agriculture."