Fishing Opener Raises Questions About Polluted Fish

Minnesota's annual Walleye fishing opener this Saturday should be a wake-up call for the urgent need to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and other top industrial sources, says the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Sierra Club and Clean Water Action Alliance.

Labeling and Traceability of Bioengineered Foods

With advances in agricultural biotechnology, it would behoove the United States to enhance existing food regulations and launch across-the-board pre-market safety testing, labeling, and traceability requirements for all food products and animal feed. Includes French and Spanish translations.

Managing the Invisible Hand

Report examining the weaknesses of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture and how it will not succeed in helping farmers and economic development until it addresses the market power held by transnational corporations. The full report, Executive Summary and press release are below.

Nitrogen and the Upper Mississippi River

This purpose of this paper is to open debate about the future of the upper Midwest landscape.

IATP Response to U.S. Embassy Memo to Croatia Concerning GMOs

A response from IATP correcting misleading assertions about GMOs in the U.S. Embassy memo to the Croatian government.

The Water Business

You have probably never heard of the quasi-governmental International Organization for Standards (ISO).

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is pleased to submit comments concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) submited comments to the U.S. Trade Representative concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

Bush Administration Decision To Delay Dioxin Report Endangers Public

The final draft report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently states that a minimum of 4,000 people in the United States will get cancer from dioxin -- at least ten new cases every day. The Bush administration is delaying the report claiming a dispute over the interpretation of mountain ash studies on the health effects of dioxin.

Is Foot and Mouth Crisis the End or the Beginning?

The disease spread to many countries at lightening speed with the destruction of thousands of animals and economic and social losses to farmers and rural communities. Phasing out factory farming would be a boon to animal and human health, and the environment.