Roger Doiron, former IATP Food and Society Fellow, is asking everyone to declare food independence this July 4 by eating locally. Frances Moore Lappé and her daughter Anna Lappé discuss diet, climate change and intergenerational solutions.
As combined economic entities, members of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) exceed the size of most governments. So, when IETA made a new financing proposal just prior to last week's UN global climate talks in Bonn, attention was paid.
To be in Brazil during the World Cup of futbol (soccer) is to see both a massive outpouring of national pride and mass marketing of the very first order. Museums will change their opening hours and churches will change the times they offer mass on any day that Brazil plays. Brazil will host the World Cup 2014.
The Des Moines Register published a 7-part series on Africa by reporter Philip Brasher who traveled to Kenya and South Africa to obtain information for the series. It focused on corn (maize in Africa) and the role of biotechnology, both the political and yield aspects, in providing food for sub-Sahara Africa.
Any international negotiations or initiatives on climate change and agriculture must begin with recognition of the multifunctionality of agriculture. It is not just one more sector.
This fact sheet is a summary of "Speculating on Carbon: The Next Toxic Asset" which was one of a series of issue briefing papers IATP produced for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen. A Spanish translation is also included below.
A critical look at the what the term sustainable agriculture has come to mean since becoming popular in the 1970s. This article by Dennis Keeney appeared in Prairie Fire, March 2010.
Global climate change negotiations currently treat greenhouse gas emissions as a tradable commodity. Carbon trading on poorly regulated commodity futures markets has disrupted efforts to address climate change. The planned expansion of carbon trading could also adversely affect food security.
Accountants are trying to decide whether credits for trading carbon dioxide are assets or whether they are liabilities unless and until firms comply with progressively more stringent annual limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S.
Copenhagen – A watered down political agreement reached this morning in Copenhagen lacks the firm commitments needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address global climate change, said the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
