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

Media Partner

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

Texas Observer

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

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Three Farm Belt states get a quarter of coronavirus relief money

July 6, 2020

House panel votes to block two Trump rules restricting SNAP access

By ,  July 6, 2020

Pandemic rages, but USDA’s food box program may end in eight weeks

By ,  July 5, 2020

House bill would help meat processors boost facilities, get USDA certification

July 5, 2020

Report: Covid-19 to worsen food insecurity around globe

July 5, 2020

Risk of ‘food nationalism’ as coronavirus pandemic sweeps world

By ,  July 1, 2020

Farmers fall short of corn planting forecast

By ,  June 30, 2020

Food box misses goal of 40 million deliveries

June 29, 2020

Coronavirus adds stress to agricultural finances

June 29, 2020

USDA should stop environmentally risky ‘depopulation’ methods, advocates say

By ,  June 28, 2020

Largest annual increase in grocery prices since 2011

By ,  June 25, 2020

Hog backlog on U.S. farms could hit 2 million head

June 25, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: Does food actually unite us?

FERN is hiring: Food access project

FERN’s commitment to equity and diversity

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

A burst of home-grown food, farming, in Alaska

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