Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
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Other Programmatic Elements
Identified by the Committee
In following the components of the committee's ideal Agriculture, Forestry, and
Fishing (AFF) Program, the committee identified other elements that the program
has been involved in and provides here a review of engagement with stakeholder
constituents, health services research and training, public policy and regulatory
advice, and program evaluation initiatives.
STAKEHOLDERS
The AFF Program seeks to engage stakeholders in its work, and the challenges
in engaging such a large and diverse workforce are obviously great. Other National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) programs also have an array
of stakeholders, but AFF stakeholders—the program's ultimate beneficiaries—are
an extraordinarily diverse constituency. Most of the 2 million-plus AFF businesses
are small and are operated by self-employed persons assisted by family members,
including children. Increasing numbers are immigrants from Mexico and Southeast
Asia who produce specialty crops on small-scale farms. Self-employed workers
who provide the majority of the labor in their operation seek to earn their fami-
lies' livelihoods in outdoor environments, sometimes enduring hardships that few
U.S.-born workers would tolerate.
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