IFSC Fair Food and Farming Work Group
The Economic Work Group has identified priorities centered around three recommendations contained in Cultivating Resilience. These include recommendations around:
- The percent of Iowa households with low and very low food security (hunger)
- The incidence of nonfatal worker injuries/illnesses in animal slaughtering and processing in Iowa
- Assess and develop and adopt an Iowa Agriculture and Farm Work Job Creation tax credit for small and nid-sized diversified farms that hire one of more new workers.
For more information or to join this work group, please contact us.
Board Members working on this Work Group include:
Production - Ellen Walsh-Rosmann, Beginning Farmer, Rosmann Family Farms
Social Justice - Jess Soulis, Student, Iowa State University
Marketing/Retail - Jason Grimm, Food System Planner, Iowa Valey RC&D