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Moving the planet towards sustainability: Two smart investment projects

Tomorrow, IATP will join millions of people in 176 countries in Moving Planet, a coordinated a day of activities to advocate for a sharp reduction of greenhouse gases and other sustainable solutions to climate change.

Comment on HLPE Climate and Food Security Study

HLPE Comments from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Please find the following input regarding the scope of the Climate and Food Security Study:

Small insights about the big picture in climate negotiations

Agriculture to feature as a key issue on the Road to Durban: opens up critical debates

Shefali Sharma blogged from Bonn, Germany climate talks. See her presentation from IATP's official side event for more.

Agriculture in the spotlight at Bonn climate talks

Carbon emissions trading at the Bonn climate change negotiations: alive but not so well

A Discussion on Gender and Water Scarcity

Shiney Varghese is a Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Her area of expertise is global water policy and its impact on water and food security, and she has published works on the environment, gender and human rights.

Water Security and the Right to Food in Climate Challenged Countries: Women at the Center

On April 13, 2011, The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in cooperation with the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission, the ACP Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development (Concord) and other partners, organized a Brussels Bri

Five Reasons Carbon Markets Won't Work for Agriculture

Carbon markets are viewed as a primary source of climate financing. The experience to date demands a reevaluation of their ability to exact real, sustainable change, particularly in relation to agriculture. This fact sheet gives five reasons why poorly designed and regulated carbon markets should not be part of a global climate treaty.

The Brazil connection: agriculture, biofuels and land use

Today, four IATP staff will lead a small delegation of U.S. environmentalists, academics and corn/biofuel producers down to Brazil (we'll be reporting here on the trip throughout the next week).