Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Published May 15, 2013

The Economic Benefits and Costs of Frac-Sand Mining in West Central Wisconsin

Published May 15, 2013

Form 990 2011

Published May 14, 2013

FDA ignores toxic arsenic in animal feed

Published May 1, 2013

Nanomaterials in fertilizer products could threaten soil health, agriculture

Published April 24, 2013

Back to the future: taxing finance

Published April 23, 2013

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<h2><a href="/blog/201305/seven-ways-to-improve-market-regulation">7 ways to improve markets</a></h2>
<p>We can’t expect markets to work if we don’t ensure government agencies have the right regulatory tools and adequate resources to effectively implement and enforce the rules.</p>
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$<div class="teasertxt"> <h2><a href="/documents/new-report-raises-concerns-about-expansion-of-frac-sand-mines-in-minnesota-and-wisconsin">True costs of frac sand mining</a></h2> <p>The true economic impact of frac sand mining may fall short of industry claims promising sustained prosperity and economic opportunity.</p> </div>$

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<h2><a href="/blog/201304/work-in-a-poultry-plant-the-good-news-is-you-still-have-a-job-the-bad-news-is-it-may-be-">Industrial chicken takes toll</a></h2>
<p>The increased use of microbe-killing chemicals in poultry processing facilities has created a serious threat to the health of workers in those facilities.</p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201304/now-being-served-in-a-soil-food-chain-near-you-nanotech">Nanomaterials in fertilizer</a></h2>
<p>In a new IATP report, Dr. Steve Suppan digs in to why more research is sorely needed before valuable soil becomes nothing but dirt as nanomaterials enter the fertilizer market.</p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201304/tollhouse-tortillas-won%E2%80%99t-end-hunger">Wal-Marting Mexico</a></h2>
<p>Michelle Obama and the President of Mexico look for solutions to hunger and the growing crisis of diet-related illnesses by turning to the companies that helped create them.</p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201304/world-social-forum-building-a-revolution-for-dignity">Revolution for Dignity</a></h2>
<p>IATP's Steve Suppan reports on his experience at the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia.</p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201303/new-iatp-report-addresses-water-governance-in-the-21st-century">Water trading and human rights</a></h2>
<p>Public policy rooted in cooperation and mutual responsibility, instead of corporate competition, would help address the crisis in shared commons such as water. </p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201303/new-report-governments-must-protect-land-food-systems-as-trade-liberalization-accelerate">Land grabs, hunger and trade</a></h2>
<p>New report: Governments must protect land, food systems as trade liberalization accelerates land grabbing.</p>
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<h2><a href="/blog/201302/food-crisis-update-main-drivers-of-price-volatility-still-not-addressed">Food crisis update</a></h2>
<p>Many of the main drivers of food price volatility remain unanswered. Sophia Murphy and Timothy A. Wise address necessary steps.</p>
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<h2><a href="/documents/a-year-of-squandered-opportunities-to-resolve-the-food-crisis">Resolving the food crisis</a></h2>
<p>What progress have governments made in the last year in addressing the international drivers of the food crisis?</p>
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Radio Sustain

September 28, 2012 What is nanotechnology? What should the public know about it as it makes its way into food and agriculture? Why is it still unregulated? IATP's Steve Suppan explains.

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