Agriculture

WEBINAR: Farm Bill 101

The Farm Bill always seems to be part of the food and justice conversation, yet few of us feel fluent in the language of this massive piece of legislation. How does it affect our work on the ground? Who has the power to influence it? Why is it so darn hard to understand?

COP 17 Press Briefing Gaia Foundation and IATP

At a December 2 press conference at the global climate talks in Durban, IATP’s Steve Suppan, Anne Wanjiku Maina of the African Biodiversity Network, Teresa Anderson of the Gaia Foundation and Helena Paul of EcoNexus talked about the dangers for Africa of including agriculture within carbon markets.

Agriculture and the Green Climate Fund: Two U.S. bargaining chips at the climate talks

IATP’s Steve Suppan is blogging from the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa.

Civil society in Durban: "Reject carbon markets for agriculture"

As the global climate talks began this week in Durban, South Africa, IATP joined more than 100 civil society organizations in calling for countries to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market.

Letter to African Agriculture and Environment Ministers

Letter from IATP, ActionAid International, the African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation (UK) to the African Agriculture and Environment Ministers, signed by over 100 other signatories.

Civil Society Intervention in the Strategy Panel 2: Creating More with Less

 My intervention is in the context of the discussion around growing more out of less, or in other words, a green economy whose primary focus is on resource efficiency improvement.

Poor countries' food import bills soar under WTO rules

FAO produces an excellent state of the world's agriculture twice a year called Food Outlook (in all 6 U.N.

Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet Potatoes and…Arsenic?

Washington, D.C., November 22 – Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of what their turkey may have eaten—arsenic.

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WEBINAR: Farm Subsidies = High-Fructose Corn Syrup = Obesity: Or do they?

Many in the public health community have long decried farm subsidies for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans as the reason for the low cost of junk food relative to fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Subsidies, the thinking goes, have caused farmers to over produce corn and soybeans.