Agriculture

IATP has been advocating for fair and sustainable agriculture and food systems for more than 35 years. Learn more about our agriculture work on our Agriculture & Food Systems page.

Farm Groups, Firms Seek to Include Trade Laws in Negotiations

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 More than twenty agriculture groups and agribusiness firms have called on President Bush to leave U.S. trade remedy laws on the table for upcoming multilateral and regional negotiations in an effort to counteract a Senate message earlier this month that U.S. trade laws should not be bargaining chits in trade deals.

The European Union View on Agriculture

United Press International | By ANNA K. HUTCHINSON, Special to UPI Franz Fishler, Austrian-born EU agriculture commissioner, is on a five-day visit to the United States to further negotiations between the EU and United States on agriculture as part of the current round of talks in respect of a further World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalization round.

Fischler: U.S. Food Aid is Dumping Commodities

Ed Maixner, Farm Progress Washington Bureau The United States has been leading the world in food aid to the world's hungry nations but Franz Fischler, the European Union's agriculture commissioner, says the U.S. also dumps farm commodities "under the pretext of food aid."

EU to Target U.S. Farm Loans in WTO Agriculture Talks

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The European Commission plans to propose next week that the World Trade Organization impose the same reduction commitments on U.S. farm supports like the $8.1 billion U.S. marketing loan and deficiency payment program that trading partners' agriculture negotiators want to place on the European Union's export subsidies, informed sources said.

Sugar-Beet Growers Feel the Squeeze of Free Trade

Craig Gustafson | Star Tribune WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last year, when sugar prices hit a 22-year low, the federal government paid Jay and Carl Nord to destroy 40 acres of their sugar beet crops.

The Green Revolution Yields To The Bottom Line

By ANDREW POLLACK New York Times May 15, 2001 Dr. William Folk, a professor at the University of Missouri, wants to genetically engineer soybeans to improve their nutritional value. But he faces more than scientific hurdles. He and Monsanto never agreed on how he might use a patented technique for inserting genes into the beans.

WTO Panel Orders U.S. to Lift Tariffs on Australian, New Zealand Lamb Imports

Mark Thornton | Food Chemical News | Volume 43, Number 13 The United States must lift tariffs on Australian and New Zealand lamb imports, a World Trade Organization appellate body has ruled, upholding a 1999 decision by the WTO's dispute settlement body.