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The research team, which also included Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., research director and professor of family medicine, and representatives of the North Carolina Farmworkers Project in Benson, recommends that the following steps should be instituted to help protect farm workers:

• Agricultural employers should be made aware of food insecurity among their workers. Food assistance is needed for these workers during the slack periods of the agricultural cycle to ensure a healthy workforce during the peak seasons.
• Health and social service providers should find ways to provide access to higher quality food for farm worker families to prevent future health problems.
• Although many churches provide emergency food pantries, they should consider new food outreach programs to reach the farm worker and their families.

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Contact: Barbara Hahn
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
6-Mar-2003