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I plan to contribute information on the health conditions of agriculture workers in the central valley of California. I will be contacting food banks to get information about who is benefitting from their services. I will also be looking at the accessibility of food for these workers and what groups are impoverished in this community.

Subsection outline
Within the topic of food insecurity and food deserts there are many effects on agricultural workers, particularly in central California that I want to explore.

Intro to subsection: Background of agriculture workers in central California (demographics, wages, employment, etc.)

Information on immigrant workers and their health benefits/lack of benefits and access to food (data on this may be a little difficult to find).

Food access for agriculture workers. I will be looking at how many workers require assistance with getting enough to eat and what the food bank programs are like in the area.

Tying together the concepts of food insecurity and food deserts and how they are effecting the people that produce our food in the central valley.

I plan to research the following sources more in addition to finding others:

Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. "Subsidizing Farmworker Hunger: Food Assistance Programs and the Social Reproduction of California Farm Labor." Geoforum, vol. 57, 01 Nov. 2014, pp. 91-98.

Kohl-Arenas, Erica. "Will the Revolution Be Funded? Resource Mobilization and the California Farm Worker Movement." Social Movement Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, Oct. 2014, pp. 482-498.

McCurdy, S A, et al. "Region of Birth, Sex, and Agricultural Work of Immigrant Latino Farm Workers: The MICASA Study." Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, vol. 20, no. 2, Apr. 2014, pp. 79-90.

"Undocumented Workers." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. : Oxford University Press, 2013. Oxford Reference. 2013.

Street, Richard Steven. Beasts of the Field : A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.

"United States Statistics." RAND State Statistics. N.p., n.d.