Agriculture

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From the Executive Director

U.S.-Mexico relations should be based on fair trade, not xenophobia

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Principles of a new U.S. trade policy for North American agriculture

Endorsed by Food & Water Watch Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy National Family Farm Coalition National Farmers Union R-CALF Rural Coalition

La producción industrial de aves de corral y las cepas mortales de la gripe aviar H5Nx

Published with the kind permission of Noticias de Abajo. Varios brotes mortales de gripe aviar H5 están diezmando las aves de corral de Europa, Asia y Oriente Medio.

Trump’s Proposed Ag Secretary Falls Short on Agriculture’s Big Challenges

Minneapolis/Washington–One day before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump finally announced his nominee to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Call to the World Bank: Enable farmers, not agribusiness

Ahead World Bank’s release of the 2017 “Enabling the Business of Agriculture” (EBA) project report this month, 156 organizations (including IATP) and academics from around the world, denounced the Bank’s scheme to undermine farmers’ rights to seeds and destroy their food sovereignty and the environment.

Undocumented farmworkers and the U.S. agribusiness economic model

There is little doubt that many supporters of the Donald Trump candidacy for President expect President-elect Trump to carry out his promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and to keep out more immigrants by building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Protectionism” and U.S. farm profitability

Congress has gone on recess without holding a vote to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement during the last days of the Obama administration. But on the day after the U.S. elections, Inside U.S.

The legacy of lost credibility in fly over country

In country star Jason Aldean’s song Fly over States, he overhears first class passengers on a flight from New York to LA, looking down on the countryside and wondering, “who’d want to live down there, in the middle of nowhere.” Aldean then flips the dismissive line into a proud anthem about the middle of the country.

Farm to Head Start in Minnesota: Planting the Seeds for a Community-centered Food System

This case study looks at a marketing initiative in two counties in Minnesota (MN), USA, which connects the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) with the Head Start Program run by the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (CAPRW) in Minnesota.