As Covid-19 rises, Alaskans crowd rivers to stock up on wild salmon

It's a matter of survival.

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As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers

Univision

Covid-19 shows no sign of slowing among food-system workers

The pandemic is just the latest threat faced by refugee food workers in Texas

Texas Observer

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

USDA’s coronavirus payments to farmers creep to $7 billion

August 10, 2020

Pandemic aid is too constricted and too slow, ag groups and lawmakers tell USDA

By ,  August 9, 2020

Farm state GOP senators speak favorably of more food assistance funds

August 6, 2020

Sweeping U.S. pesticide reform bill introduced, banning some chemical agents

By ,  August 4, 2020

Glitches in aid program obscure need for more relief during pandemic, say ag leaders

By ,  August 3, 2020

Replacing school meals, P-EBT program lifted millions of children out of hunger

By ,  August 3, 2020

Opinion — Smithfield’s media attack shifts attention from its own lack of disclosure

By ,  August 3, 2020

Million-dollar payments from USDA’s coronavirus fund

July 30, 2020

Advocates implore Congress to increase spending on anti-hunger programs

July 29, 2020

Senate bill would block faster line speeds at meat plants during pandemic

By ,  July 29, 2020

Perdue gets $20 billion blank check for ag aid in GOP coronavirus plan

By ,  July 27, 2020

Covid-19 cases appear to be slowing at meat plants. But companies aren’t releasing test results.

By ,  July 27, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: The decline of the ‘chef-auteur’

FERN is hiring: Food access project

FERN’s commitment to equity and diversity

With thousands of seafood workers coming to Alaska, state tries to contain Covid-19

How did Europe avoid the Covid-19 catastrophe ravaging U.S. meatpacking plants?

Mother Jones

Editor’s Desk – Spotlight on Covid-19 and rural America

Covid-19 is spreading among farmworkers, and it may get worse

For this North Dakota grocery, the pandemic is personal

Daily Yonder

When Covid-19 hits a rural meatpacking plant, county infection rates soar to five times the average

and

Daily Yonder

Feeding refugees on the U.S.-Mexico border was always a challenge. Now there’s Covid-19. 

Charting the spread of Covid-19 in the food system

‘The workers are being sacrificed’: As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded factory floors

and

Mother Jones
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