Analysis of the 2007 Farm Bill was produced by IATP as a collection of five fact sheets under the title “Understanding the Farm Bill” to target the impacts of the Farm Bill in specific areas.
U.S. farmers have planted a post-World War II record amount of land with corn. Researchers report an all-time record for the size of the dead (hypoxic) zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Is there a connection?
Government policies that support an expansion of perennial energy crops for the new bioeconomy will help diversify Midwest farms and bring a series of economic and environmental benefits, according to an article published in the June 15 edition of Science.
The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed imported from China exposes the inherent weaknesses of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies at the expense of public health.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights sought input from stakeholders in conducting the detailed study on the scope and content of the relevant human rights obligations related to equitable access to safe drinking water and sanitation under international human rights instruments. The purpose of the submission is three-fold:
This series of briefing papers takes an in-depth look at policies in the 2007 Farm Bill and how they affect not just farmers but entire rural communities, the environment, our health, immigration and hunger on both a local and global levels.
A chemical known to be toxic to the nervous and reproductive system, and a developmental toxin, leaches from popular clear, plastic baby bottles, according to Toxic Baby Bottles: Scientific Study Finds Leaching Chemicals in Clear Plastic Baby Bottles, a new report released today.
The U.S. has shown less willingness than other WTO members to change its position on agriculture. Now a complicated web of issues and interests is being spun inside the U.S. that could affect the WTO agriculture negotiations.
