Agriculture

Letter to the Director General of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization

The 350 civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations from 63 countries listed below represent hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural workers and other communities, as well as human rights, faith-based, environmental and economic justice institutions. We are writing to express our deep concern over your stated plans to strengthen official ties with CropLife International. We strongly urge you to reconsider this alliance.

After Trump’s payouts are gone, what happens to farmers?

A farm economy awash in an unprecedented infusion of public dollars directed by the Trump administration could face a reckoning soon. Close to $40 billion in agriculture-related payments this year mask structural problems in a badly broken market that doesn’t pay most farmers enough to continue farming.

[WATCH] Nano-pesticides: Can they be self-regulating?

Download Dr. Steve Suppan's presentation delivered on November 6, 2020 at XVII Seminanosoma (virtual seminar) translated into English here. 

Nano-pesticides: Introduction to encapsulated products and frameworks for assessing their risks to environmental and human health

The following article was originally published in an eBook prepared as part of the November 4-6 2020 webinar organized by the Brazilian Network for Nanotechnology, Society and Environment (Renanosoma).

Agricultural revolution: "The Gates Foundation is leading Africa to failure"

An interview with Timothy A. Wise originally published in French on Tchak!

World Food Day drives home need for change in the US

This World Food Day, as the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) celebrates its 75th anniversary, it is sobering to remember the several billions of our fellow human beings who suffer from some form of food insecurity.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Comments on the Environmental Assessment Worksheet for Waukon Dairy

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) thanks the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for the opportunity to comment on the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) for Riverview’s proposed Waukon Dairy in Norman County. 

Pressure builds on Gates Foundation, AGRA for accountability

It has now been nine months since I first asked staff at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) for data on its beneficiaries and impacts for my background paper for the July 10 report, “Fa

US-UK trade deal is a threat to food and farmers

IATP submits evidence on trade bill to the House of Lords                          

USFSA Letter to US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture

IATP is a member of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) and participated in the collaboration process to develop this letter. USFSA is a network of 50+ grassroots organizations and grassroots supportive organizations and published this open letter denouncing the U.S.