The Thai-Myanmar border and Immokalee, Florida are half a world away from each other, but both locations have a strong pull. In 1994, Ellen and I accepted positions as field personnel with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship to work with migrant hill tribe communities in northern Thailand that had fled conflict in neighboring Myanmar (Burma). These mountain farmers left everything behind to find few resources in Thailand to support their agrarian livelihoods. To survive, man

Despite Florida supplying 2/3rds of America’s wintertime tomatoes, Immokalee’s farmworkers – the vast majority being migrants – struggle with poverty and food insecurity. According to 2015 census data, Immokalee’s poverty rate of 43.9 percent is over three times higher than the official US level. Obviously, a high poverty rate goes hand-in-hand with household food insecurity considering the minimal food purchasing power of low-income families. Compounding the effect of inad