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The Agricultural Justice Project brings together workers, farmers, and their communities to build a food system that’s fair and just. See our website for more information on all of our programs.
Our AJP toolkit collects guidance and resources to help you build a business and workplace that’s fair and accountable to workers, small-scale farmers, and communities.
A press release template for announcing a farm or business’s Food Justice Certification.
Guidance for choosing and using respirators and air filters. Includes some recommended products.
A sample agreement between a farmer and a buyer that satisfies AJP standards.
This checklist is designed as a tool to help farmers run through the AJP labor standards to identify any areas they may need to work on prior to seeking Food Justice Certification.
Simple form for documenting a regular employee evaluation.
Excerpted from the AJP’s Model Handbook for Farm Employees. See also our discussion of just cause dismissal.
No employee who has completed a probationary period shall be discharged or otherwise disciplined without just and sufficient cause. If the discharge or disciplinary act is found to be unjustified, the worker may be reinstated and may be compensated for loss of earnings during the period of such discharge or disciplinary act.
...Short sample learning contract for farm internships.
Short sample learning contract for farm internships.
More detailed sample learning contract for farm internships.
On the challenges that small-scale producers face selling to institutional and wholesale buyers and the specific forms of support and accommodation that they feel they need from these buyers.