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 and food groups to Congress: Reject the USMCA

We write to you as representatives of US family farm, ranching, farmworker, local foods, public health, and sustainable agriculture organizations to urge you to reject the current version of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA).

Alternative agricultural systems

The following is an excerpt from Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A Trade Agenda for People and the Planet jointly published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Institute

We need to tame Wall Street and Big Ag to empower carbon farmers

Also posted at the Roosevelt Institute

New UN report on agroecology for climate, food security and human rights

The United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will launch its report Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition next week in Rome.

New Zealand Zero Carbon Act targets big dairy farming

New Zealand's proposed Zero Carbon Act would be one of the first globally to set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions targets for agriculture, including dairy production.

Market Risk Advisory Committee meeting agenda item on Climate Related Financial Risk

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Agroecology: Key to agricultural resilience and ecosystem recovery

The IPCC gives us 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5˚C. The IPBES Global Assessment has revealed that nearly a million species are on the verge of disappearance at an unprecedented rate of extinction.

Trump's tariff tantrum

Reverting to his favorite form of discourse, President Trump tweeted last week that he would impose rising tariffs on imports from Mexico unless it stopped migration flows north into the United States. This is a violation of human rights and basic decency.

The trade cold war: Agricultural impacts

It’s hard to believe that transnational corporations—who sought and gained access to low-cost, non-union Chinese labor and more than one billion Chinese consumers in the 1990s and 2000s—could not have foreseen the day that China itself would compete in advanced technology products and markets.

Taking farmers for a ride

This story was first published at Other Words on May 29, 2019. Over the last year, President Trump has taken farmers on a roller coaster ride that’s finally gone off the rails.

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