Sustainable Agriculture

Farmers and Ranchers Deliver Letter to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and farmers and ranchers from across the country delivered a letter to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (Select Committee), urging Congress to support and invest in farming and rural communities to address the climate crisis. 

Letter to the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) thanks the Committee for seeking input on the climate crisis, the most critical challenge of our time. IATP is a 34-year-old non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. IATP works to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Uprooting the farm crisis in times of COVID-19

The COVID-19 emergency exposes numerous catastrophic failures in our economies and societies.

Keeping conservation dollars climate-friendly

The Farm Bill’s conservation title includes a suite of programs that pay farmers for implementing conservation projects on their land. These programs are beneficial for numerous reasons: they encourage practices that sequester carbon, clean up the water, create wildlife habitat and make farms more resilient to extreme weather.

Comment on the Environmental Quality Incentives Program Interim Final Rule

To download a PDF version of the comments, click here.  Matt Lohr Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service U.S. Department of Agriculture Washington, DC 20250 

2020 – A year and decisive decade of climate reckoning: What policymakers do next on agriculture matters

This blog is the second in a series of two posts about agriculture in the U.N. climate negotiations and what to look for in 2020. Read the first blog post here.  

IATP Comment to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

IATP submitted the following comment to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on November 21.  Download the full comment PDF.

A call for climate-focused agriculture policy

This blog was originally posted by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition on November 18, 2019. 

Worldwide Civil Society Organizations Denounce US Government Obstruction of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Policy Convergence Process for Solutions to Food Security and Nutrition Crisis

While the world is experiencing a new rise in hunger and malnutrition for the third consecutive year after decades of decline, the US government is aiming at systematically undermining the role of the CFS as the foremost inclusive intergovernmental and international political platform to address the food security and nutrition crisis.

The climate crisis requires government action: regulate Big Ag, transition to agroecology

As world leaders gather at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), in its new publication, calls on U.N.