Agriculture

Trump Turns Back on Farmers by Rejecting Global Climate Agreement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 06/01/2017 Contact Ben Lilliston, 612-741-8650, blilliston@iatp.org

Who Wins and Who Loses from U.S. Dumping of Corn

Agricultural “dumping” – the practice of exporting commodities at prices below the cost of production -- can be devastating for farmers in importing countries, especially in low-income countries with little power to use trade rules to defend their markets. It is unfair competition for producers in other exporting countries. And by encouraging overproduction in the U.S., it traps U.S.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Statement on notice of NAFTA Renegotiation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2017 Contact: Karen Hansen-Kuhn, 202-413-9533, khansenkuhn@iatp.org; Josh Wise, 952-818-5474, jwise@iatp.org  

Who will Trump side with on Paris climate decision?

In the coming weeks, various factions within the White House will debate whether the U.S. should leave the Paris climate agreement—the global plan signed by nearly 200 countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Two ways to tackle livestock’s contribution to the climate crisis

25 April 2017

Two ways to tackle livestock’s contribution to the climate crisis

The Issue We cannot address climate change without reducing the production and consumption of industrial meat and dairy.

Clean water, not deregulation, will help farmers in the long run

This op-ed originally ran in AgriNews on World Water Day.

Urgent care: preventing human resistance to antibiotics

Perhaps it has happened to you. Ill, you take a prescribed antibiotic and you begin to feel better. But a few days later after finishing the prescription, you feel ill again. Have your germs become resistant to the antibiotic?

Republican Healthcare Proposal to Cost Farmers and Rural Communities

The assessments of the new healthcare proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from House Republicans and the Trump Administration are rolling in. And they are not good, particularly for farmers and rural Americans.

禽何以堪？

全球工业化肉业集群：最初于2014年2月以英文发表报告翻译：蒋亦凡中译版协调与编辑：谷声，一个致力于生态农业和可持续食物体系的在线传播和研究平台理解中国的肉业革命