Agriculture

How the WTO Can Support Climate Adaptation

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has a well-earned reputation for placing trade concerns above all else—including global priorities like climate change and food security.

Food Reserves, Climate Adaptation and the World Trade Organization

At the global climate talks in Bonn, Germany last month, countries agreed for the first time on an agriculture work program designed to identify the best strategies to respond to climate change and protect food security. Nearly 80 percent of countries included agriculture in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) as part of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Uprooted Episode 11: Slavery in Brazil's Meat Chain

IATP, FASE, and The Heinrich Boell Foundation recently released a report on the industrial meat complex in Brazil. Besides the massive government corruption and environmental destruction, the human rights abuses in the supply chain are both well-documented and abundant.

The Rise of Big Meat

Introduction: Brazil’s Rise to the Top of the Global Meat Complex

The Rise of Big Meat: Brazil's Extractive Industry Executive Summary

Brazil is the world’s leading exporter of soybeans, the second largest exporter of maize and the world’s largest beef trader. It has overtaken the United States in becoming the biggest exporter of poultry in the world, close to 39 percent of total global exports. With China drastically increasing its pork imports in the last two years, Brazil has also stepped in to meet this demand.

Sign-on Letter. Protect Farmer Fair Practices Act

Over eighty organizations sent this letter to President Trump requesting immediate action to protect independent family farmers and ranchers from the predatory and retaliatory actions of foreign and multi-national corporations

GIPSA letter to President Trump

Letter to President Trump about saving GIPSA.

Do no harm?: NAFTA, non-regulation of GMOs and Mexican agriculture

Last week, I spent three days in Mexico City to talk with NGOs the public and the press about U.S.

Uprooted Episode 8: Agroecological transition in Mexico

A multitude of alternatives to industrial agriculture are emerging, and small-scale farmers have been the pioneers of one such alternative, known as agroecology. As an integrative interdisciplinary science, agroecology offers techniques for producing healthy food and restoring ecosystems.

IATP's Anna Claussen receives prestigious fellowship

IATP’s very own Anna Claussen, Director of Rural Strategies, is one of three people recently awarded one of three prestigious Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowships.