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The Fair Food Program (FFP) is a partnership between growers, farmworkers, and food company buyers to improve conditions for farmworkers. [1] [2] It was launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a worker-based human rights organization in Immokalee, Florida in 2011.
In February 2012, the CIW and Trader Joe's "signed an agreement that formalizes the ways in which Trader Joe's will work with the CIW and Florida tomato growers to support the CIW's Fair Food Program." [32] This was the first Fair Food agreement the CIW signed with a major food retailer in the aftermath of the 2010 breakthrough settlement with ...
Peltz's presence in Palm Beach is the primary reason the group comes each year to rally on the island, as the coalition works to pressure Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program, organizers have ...
Now, they are focusing on the supermarket industry, including Florida-based Publix and additional fast food chains, including Wendy’s. ... signed on to the Fair Food program in 2009. Theresa ...
Food Chains is a 2014 American documentary film about agricultural labor in the United States directed by Sanjay Rawal. It was the Recipient of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Special/Documentary.
The Florida Department of Children and Families Office of Economic Self-Sufficiency is responsible for the state's SNAP, which provides food-purchasing assistance to low-income households by...
The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127), known informally as the Freedom to Farm Act, the FAIR Act, or the 1996 U.S. Farm Bill, was the omnibus 1996 farm bill that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.
The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food assistance in Florida, provides monthly benefits to eligible low-income individuals and families. SNAP benefits may be used to...