Cattle Abuse, Beef Recall, Highlight Systemic Weaknesses

The recent recall of 143 million pounds of beef exposes systemic weaknesses in the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection system.

New WTO Agriculture Text Falls Short ? Again

New draft agricultural trade rules released at the World Trade Organization today fail to repair a deeply flawed negotiating agenda. This latest attempt to save the Doha Round adds nothing new except more loopholes and exemptions to an already complicated text.  

New Baby Bottle Study Spurs Need for State Legislation

Minnesota based Healthy Legacy, co-founded by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, along with environmental health organizations across the U.S. and Canada are calling for an immediate phase out of bisphenol A in food and beverage containers, based on the results of a new study that demonstrates the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from plastic baby bottles when heated.

Food & Society Policy Fellowship Announces 2009 Class

The Food & Society Policy Fellows program named nine new Fellows with backgrounds in farming, public health, film making and policy research to promote strategies for achieving a more sustainable, healthy and equitable food system.

International Solidarity Letter

Biofuels and Global Water Challenges

The growth of the biofuel industry poses a number of challenges to water quantity and quality around the world.

Lessons From NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda

In 2007 IATP organized the conference "Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda" which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With 45 groups signed on as co-sponsors, the conference was attended by over 250 people, including representatives from the media; the Minnesota state government; the Mexican and Canadian embassies; representatives from the Canadian, Mexican and U.S.

Free Trade Undermining Democracy in Costa Rica?

Pre-election polls said Costa Ricans would reject CAFTA-DR. But election results differed and the stakes couldn't be higher for the future of the Costa Rican democracy and economy. What happened?

Privatizing U.S. Water

This paper is part of an ongoing attempt to assess the privatization of water services as a governmental response to the decline in water services infrastructure, particularly in the U.S.

Understanding the Farm Bill. U.S. WTO Commitments and the Farm Bill

One of a series of fact sheets examining the 2007 Farm Bill that was published by IATP. To read the entire series see "Understanding the Farm Bill" in our 2007 Farm Bill collection.