Overview
While some Minneapolis neighborhoods enjoy a bountiful supply of healthy foods, others do not. Mini farmers markets help address this challenge by bringing fresh, locally grown foods into Minneapolis neighborhoods.
Hundreds of studies to date, and ever-strengthening science, tie the spreading epidemic of resistant infections in humans to routine antibiotic use in food animals. This is a select summary of that science across several critical strands of evidence.
Rising agricultural prices, combined with growing import dependence, have driven Mexico’s food import bill over $20 billion per year and increased its agricultural trade deficit.
A summary version of this piece is available in another IATP publication, entitled A Climate-smart Idea? Understanding the Politics, Practices and Players of the Agricultural Soil Carbon Market.
Two years after the launch of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, the World Bank and the FAO pushed for an expansion of the program despite unclear benefits to farmers and a history of dubious promises. IATP called for the program, with its deep flaws and the dubious process by which it was "endorsed," to be reassessed.