AUTHOR=Ortega María Isabel , Sabo Samantha , Aranda Gallegos Patricia , De Zapien Jill Eileen Guernsey , Zapien Antonio , Portillo Abril Gloria Elena , Rosales Cecilia 

TITLE=Agribusiness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Health of Agricultural Migrant Workers

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=4

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00054

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2016.00054

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=<sec id="ST1"><title>Background</title><p>Living conditions and health of migrant farmworkers could benefit from a health promotion model based on corporate social responsibility (CSR).</p></sec><sec id="ST2"><title>Objective</title><p>To understand how Mexican agribusiness owners and general managers view and practice CSR.</p></sec><sec id="ST3"><title>Methods</title><p>We interviewed 8 agribusiness owners/managers and 233 farmworkers using open-ended interviews and gathered anthropometrical data of 133 children from farmworkers families. To guide our analysis and discussion, we followed the two-dimension model of CSR proposed by Quazi and O’Brien.</p></sec><sec id="ST4"><title>Results</title><p>According to interviewee responses, mean percentage of agreement with CSR concept was 77.4%, with a range of 54–85.7%. Main health-related issues among farmworkers were infectious diseases, crowding, and access to health-care services; there were acute cases of undernutrition among farmworkers’ children and diets were of poor quality.</p></sec><sec id="ST5"><title>Discussion</title><p>Agribusiness owners and managers understand and practice CSR according to a wide and modern view, which contradicts with farmworkers’ living conditions and health. Quazi and O’Brien model should consider the social context, in which it is analyzed, and the social manifestations of community development as a tool for further analysis on the perceptions and actions of entrepreneurs.</p></sec>