Labor Rights Strategist & Co-Founder of Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Principal Architect of the Fair Food Program; MacArthur Fellow
Greg Asbed Biography
Greg Asbed is an activist, labor organizer, and human rights strategist recognized as a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a worker-based human rights organization focused on eradicating modern slavery and labor abuse in the agricultural industry. Asbed has developed a comprehensive approach to improving farmworker conditions in the United States, drawing on experiences gained through partnerships with workers in Immokalee, Florida, and through his work with the Peasant Movement of Papaye in Haiti. He also spent 18 seasons harvesting watermelons in the southeastern United States, experiences that informed his commitment to farmworker justice.
Asbed and his collaborators established the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to address issues such as human trafficking, sexual abuse, wage theft, and unsafe working conditions in agriculture. He is recognized as the principal architect of the Fair Food Program, an initiative that has transformed agricultural labor standards. The program requires participating companies to pay a premium for crops and commit to a code of conduct regarding wages and working conditions, with enforcement mechanisms that include dropping suppliers who violate standards. The Fair Food Program protects tens of thousands of farmworkers across more than 20 states, multiple countries, and a range of crops.
This approach, known as Worker-driven Social Responsibility, centers worker empowerment in supply chain accountability. Asbed also contributed to the creation of the Fair Food Standards Council, an independent body that ensures compliance through audits and investigations. He coordinates relationships among farmworkers, retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods, McDonald's, and Sodexo, and agricultural industry leaders to advance the Fair Food Program’s standards, worker education, and enforcement.
Asbed is a founding member of the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network, which promotes this model in global supply chains. He has consulted on adapting the Fair Food Program internationally and serves on the advisory board of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project to end forced labor in supply chains. Asbed’s advocacy has been recognized with the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts in Combating Human Trafficking, the Clinton Global Citizen Award, and the James Beard Leadership Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow for his work in transforming conditions for low-wage workers. The Fair Food Program has been highlighted by Harvard Business Review as one of the most significant social-impact success stories.
Asbed has delivered talks at TEDMED, the White House, and the United Nations, sharing insights on human rights, labor justice, and supply chain reform. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Brown University and a Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Asbed continues to advance worker-driven social responsibility as a model for improving conditions for low-wage workers in the modern labor market, contributing to ongoing discussions on human rights and supply chain accountability.
Greg Asbed Videos
Climate Underground Putting Justice on the Table Panel Al Gore
I'm pleased to join with former Vice President Al Gore Reverend Heber Brown Black Church Food Security Network and Greg Asbed.
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