Giving Compass' Take:

• Dani Nierenberg interviews Food Chain Worker Alliance Co-Directors about protections for food workers, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Issues for food and farm workers are not new, but the pandemic definitely exacerbates their hurdles. How can donors alleviate some of these challenges? 

• Understand more about food insecurity brought on by COVID-19. 

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Food Chain Worker Alliance Co-Directors Suzanne Adely and Sonia Singh discuss how institutions are failing to protect food workers during COVID-19. They also discuss how the Black Lives Matter movement is highlighting racial inequities in the food system. Suzanne and Sonia outline their policy objectives and talk about how the pandemic might reshape workers’ rights long term.

Read the full article about protecting food workers by Rob Pera at Food Tank.