Agriculture

Agroecology: Ending hunger while protecting natural resources

The following article was written for and originally published by the International Trade Centre (ITC). Read the article here. 

What is the Nutrition Title of the Farm Bill?

The Farm Bill Nutrition Title contains the nation’s largest nutrition and food security programs, supporting low-income families to access healthy foods through supplemental funding, direct food assistance and funding for organizations administering critical nutrition support programs.

[Watch] What’s next for the Farm Bill?

Watch the recording of our webinar, What’s next for the Farm Bill? Tracking what the next Farm Bill will mean for Minnesota.

What is the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill?

From conserving vast prairie and wetland reserves to helping urban farmers get access to hoop houses, the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill has many implications for Minnesotans, whether they live on a farm or not.

Genetically modified corn tribunal raises concerns with first decisions

This article was originally published by Food Tank. A version of this article appears in Spanish on Pie de Página.

Now we see it: First thoughts on FAO’s Roadmap for food security within a 1.5°C climate ceiling

As we anticipated in our comment a few weeks back, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) dropped its report, Achieving SDG2 With

Struggles for seed sovereignty around the world

As part of the remarkable recent conference held in Oaxaca, Mexico on Food Self-Sufficiency and Agroecological Transition in a Multipolar World, IATP organized an event with partners from Africa, Southeast Asia and Mexico focusing on a key aspect of agroecological transitions: farmers’ rights over their seed systems.

Weak COP28 outcomes on climate action, finance and food systems lack needed urgency, leaving it to countries to take the lead

Before dawn in Dubai, COP28 negotiators issued a final text that included a call to transition away from fossil fuels. Yet, the call sets a feeble course for the phaseout of their use, finance commitments are weak and equity is largely ignored.

Rethinking food systems in Southeast Asia: The need for a radical transformation from ultra-processed foods

This article is the 12th in a series highlighting the work of our colleagues around the world to build agroecological practices, science and movements. Agroecology has emerged as a set of practices based on principles

IATP reacts to FAO’s Achieving SDG2 without Breaching the 1.5C Threshold: A Global Roadmap

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, in response to the launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s launch of its anticipated Roadmap to achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5˚ C Threshold: A Global Roadmap, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Executive Director Sophia Murphy, Ph.D., issued the following statement: