By Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy, and Loni Kemp with the Minnesota Project.
This report was produced for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainability on November 2002.
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) applauded the Minnesota Legislature and Governor Tim Pawlenty for signing into law last week a bill which would restrict the sale of fertilizer products in Minnesota to those with less than 500 parts per million of arsenic.
Dioxin is an unintended by-product of industrial manufacturing processes and is identified as one of the most toxic of all chemicals known to man. This fact sheet is an introduction to this chemical and what its impacts are.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening its advisory for warning consumers about unsafe mercury levels in fish, according to recent statements made by its chief medical officer to the news media.
Water use for agriculture production will likely have a significant impact on water quantity in the Great Lakes region in the near future, according to a new report released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. The report called for region-wide coordination to ensure that farmers and other users have access to water in the future.
"Five primary farm commodities are being dumped onto international global markets by the United States in violation of World Trade Organization (WTO) agriculture rules, according to a new report released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. ..."
As the world's nations consider strategies to tackle climate change, little attention has been given to the intersection of energy intensive industrial agriculture and global distribution systems combined with trade agreements.
Dr. Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, will testify before the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy at a hearing held in Chicago on September 24, 2002.
