Completed Project Report


Advancing Farmworker Disaster Resilience

  • Award Amount: $50,000
  • Regional Center: Western Extension Risk Management Education Center
  • Grant Program: 2020 Education Projects

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Project Overview

The threat of wide-sweeping, rapid-burning wildfires has been compounding exponentially in the West. Each year, tragic stories of farmers’ faced with severe property, crop, livestock, labor and market losses haunt our region. Farm-workers’ stories are far worse, with limited language access, lack of resources and dependence on employers, they are the most vulnerable actors during these devastating events. Now with COVID-19 disasters are more prominent then ever before.

Our project aimed to reduce the human, legal and financial risks of producers and their workforce. From three years of providing disaster services we have developed strategies to protect the farming and farm-worker community before, during and after a fire.  We served 1041 Spanish speaking farmworkers through tailgate trainings in the North Bay and 7 Spanish speaking farmers in one-on-one trainings in the Salinas Valley of California. We developed a bilingual animation series and text-based disaster preparedness course to serve our community during the COVID-19 and Wildfires disasters

Number of Participants: 1048

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