Public Health: Farmworker Families and Food Systems
	Issues such as poverty, housing shortages, and occupational health concerns provide significant challenges to farmworker communities in California. FSFS is currently examining some of the occupational health issues that farmworkers face as a result of agriculture, and successful models for addressing those issues. To learn more about farmworker health, please attend our event on farmworker health or visit the following links:    »  General statistics on farmworker health in California (pdf)  »  Information on farmworker exposure to pesticides  »  Farmworker access to healthcare in four California counties (pdf)  »  Suffering in Silence      a report commissioned by the California Endowment      on the health of California’s agricultural workers (pdf)  »  The Bounty of Food: The Poverty of Health ARTICLES 7.12.2004 Immigration bill falters as election takes center stage By Emily Bazar, Bee Staff Writer And Michael Doyle, Bee Washington Bureau From the Sacramento Bee 2.21.2003 Farmworker Women and Pesticides in California's Central Valley (Report) By Margaret Reeves and Terra Murphy (PANNA), and Teresa Calvo Morales (Líderes Campesinas) 9.18.2002 Pesticide Safety Laws Fail to Protect Farmworkers State Agency Confirms Widespread Under-Enforcement, Poisonings Result from By-the-Book Use By Margaret Reeves, PANNA Anne Katten, CRLAF Martha Guzmán, UFW  »  Learn about other issues related to food systems.