How to create a better food system (+video)

Our worldwide food system needs an overhaul. Here are 13 steps to change food policies and improve lives.

9. Protect workers

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A farm worker uses a walk-behind tractor in a field in Kyaiklat, a town in Myanmar. A billion people worldwide work in agriculture but in many countries farm workers endure poverty, lack of education, and harsh, dangerous working conditions.

Farm and food workers across the world are fighting for better pay and working conditions. In Zimbabwe, the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), protects laborers from abuse. In the US, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers successfully persuaded Trader Joe’s and Chipotle to pay the premium of a penny-per-pound to Florida tomato pickers.

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