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Ron Strochlic
Executive Director
"If We Don't Speak, Our Voices Won't Be Heard": Organizing Farmworkers through Poder Popular by Gloria Sayavedra, Ron Strochlic and Bertha Sarmina Garcia (9 pages)
In collaboration with Harder+Company Community Research, CIRS is conducting a 3-year evaluation of The California Endowment's Promotores Communitarios de Salud Strategy, a grassroots education and mobilization strategy for improving community health in agricultural communities. The strategy, which is being implemented in eight regions throughout California, utilizes a popular education approach to help agricultural workers and other residents understand and respond to physical and social environmental threats to their health. This brief provides preliminary findings from this evaluation.
To view a powerpoint of evaluation findings presented at the 2008 American Evaluation Association meetings in Denver click here.
An Assessment of the Demand for Farm Workers Housing and Transportation in Mendocino County by Ron Strochlic, Lisa Kresge, Don Villarejo, and Cathy Wirth
Lack of access to decent housing and safe, affordable transportation are some of the most significant issues affecting the health and well being of agricultural workers in California. The Mendocino County Planning Department contracted with CIRS to identify ways to improve agricultural worker housing and assess the feasibility of a vanpool offering safe and affordable transportation. The research is based on a survey of 200 farmworkers and 90 agricultural employers, and key informant interviews with a range of experts familiar with farm labor housing and transportation conditions in the region. The findings identify the numbers and characteristics of farmworkers employed in Mendocino County and their housing and transportation needs, with recommendations for addressing these conditions.
Factors Associated with Deregistration Among Organic Farmers in California by Luis Sierra, Karen Klonsky, Ron Strochlic, Sonja Brodt and Richard Molinar
With funding from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program and in collaboration with University of California Cooperative Extension, CIRS conducted a survey of California growers that have discontinued registration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Organic Program. The research findings shed light on some of the principal challenges affecting organic growers and reasons for exiting organic production. This study comes as a follow-up to prior research assessing factors associated with adoption and non-adoption of organic farming practices among conventional, mixed and deregistered growers.
Executive Director
California Institute for Rural Studies
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Davis, CA 95616
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