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

It's a matter of survival.

Media Partner

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

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

Signs of Covid-19 slump in Indiana farmland prices

July 23, 2020

Lax rules, little accountability in Trump food-box giveaway, say House Democrats

By ,  July 21, 2020

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

Trump’s executive order seeks controversial overhaul of seafood industry

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