Labor, Water, and California Agriculture in 2014

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Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom | 1001 King Hall | UC Davis
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Over half of the workers employed on US crop farms have been unauthorized since the mid-1990s. Congress is considering two approaches to legalize the hired farm work force, legalization of unauthorized farm workers to be immigrants and new guest worker programs (Senate), and legalization to guest worker and new guest worker programs (House).

California is in its third consecutive year of drought, and both federal and state water projects announced zero allocations for water buyers south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta. What is the impact of reduced water supplies on farmers, farm workers and communities, and what are the longer term implications of the water status quo?

We are grateful to the Gifford Center, Giannini Foundation, the Liquid Sugars Endowment, and the Temporary Migration Cluster for their support of this conference, as well as the UCD Agricultural Issues Center and the Immigration Law Association. 

8:15am

Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:45am

Welcome 

  • Kevin R. Johnson
  • Colin Carter

9:00am

Migration Patterns: Farm Employment Trends and Farm Worker Changes 

  • Chair, Colin Carter
  • Philip Martin
  • Ed Taylor
  • Bert Mason  
  • Roberta Cook  

10:30am

Break 

10:45am

Reports from the Field 

  • Chair, Philip Martin
  • Bryan Little
  • Pete Maturino
  • Bill Gould
  • Richard Longo  

12:00pm

Lunch 

1:00pm

Water and Agriculture in 2014 

  • Chair, Rachael Goodhue
  • Richard Howitt
  • David Sunding
  • Dan Sumner  

2:45pm

Break 

3:00pm

Reports from the Field 

  • Chair, Dan Sumner
  • Vernon Crowder 
  • Nicole Montna Van Vleck 
  • Bill Phillimore

4:30pm

Adjourn 

 

Click here to register. For more information, please contact Philip Martin.

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