Sentences with phrase «leading farm workers»

The EPA has announced a grant for a Latino - led farm worker organization in New Jersey to educate migrant workers about the risks of pesticide exposure.

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On a cattle farm in the desert outside Doha, Qatar, hundreds of cows imported from the Netherlands are led into an airconditioned hall to be milked by Asian workers in orange uniforms.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Officials say the new standards will protect the nation's 2 million farm workers and their families from exposure to pesticides each year, exposures that can lead to sick says, lost wages, and medical bills.

As a high school student, he volunteered with the farm workers movement, led student walkouts and organized an African - American student union.

With one project which limited pesticides on Pakistan cotton farms, 12 % of trained farmers escaped poverty with higher crop profitability while reducing exposure to pesticides that led to a 50 % drop in cases of acute poisoning among field workers.

El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA), a Latino - led migrant farm worker organization, will use the grant to survey workers and train them using the We Work with Pesticides curriculum, which was developed by the Farm Worker Health and Safety Institute and approved by the Efarm worker organization, will use the grant to survey workers and train them using the We Work with Pesticides curriculum, which was developed by the Farm Worker Health and Safety Institute and approved by theworker organization, will use the grant to survey workers and train them using the We Work with Pesticides curriculum, which was developed by the Farm Worker Health and Safety Institute and approved by the EFarm Worker Health and Safety Institute and approved by theWorker Health and Safety Institute and approved by the EPA..

Lead attorney Robert Jarchi, along with associates Molly McKibben and Christian Nickerson, obtained a $ 4.7 million verdict in Riverside Superior Court against Southern California Edison (SCE) for the wrongful death of a farm worker electrocuted while picking fruit in a grapefruit orchard, in a strongly disputed liability case.