For almost 20 years, the NC Farmworkers’ Project has partnered with Wake Forest University to investigate research questions important to the lives of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The Farmworkers’ Project has collaborated on numerous community-based participatory research projects to gather data on questions affecting farmworkers’ health, lives, and livelihood. Together we have investigated topics ranging from the effects of pesticide exposure on farmworker health to food insecurity in farmworker families to housing conditions for farmworkers in Eastern NC. We involve communities in all aspects of the project, from planning to data gathering to dissemination.
The NC Farmworkers’ Project serves as the resource center, home base, and connection to care for more than 2,000 farmworkers in five counties around Benson, North Carolina