Agroecology

Q&A: The United Nations agroecology negotiations and Food Systems Summit

Starting on July 26, United Nations delegates and other stakeholders will meet in Rome for a Pre-Summit leading up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) scheduled to take place this September in New York.

New AGRA Reports Offer Little Evidence to Justify Continued Donor Support

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has been under fire over the last year after our research revealed that the billion-dollar agency had made little progress toward its stated goals of doubling yields and incomes for 30 million small-scale farming households while halving food insecurity.

Call for a unifying framework for food systems transformation and agroecology

As we’ve written about in earlier articles, civil society groups from around the world have been working together to lift up agroecology in the U.N. Committee on World Food Security (U.N.

Making Money Move for Agroecology

IATP is among the groups the have endorsed the following policy brief. Access the policy brief in French and Spanish on CIDSE's website. 

Ten priorities for the Farm to Fork INI report

Arc 2020, Arche Noah, Biodynamic Federation Demeter, Client Earth, Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements, Compassion in World Farming, ECVC, EEB, EHN, EPHA, Euro Coop, Eurogroup for Animals, Feedback, Friends of the Earth, Four Paws, Food and Water Action Europe, Greenpeace, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, IFOAM Organics Europe, OSEPI, PAN Europe, SAFE, Slow Food Europe, Urgenci

May 3rd, 2021

As the European Parliament is preparing its reaction (own-initiative report) to the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, civil society organisations in the areas of environment, consumers, food systems, animal welfare, health, consumer co-operatives, farming, fisheries, development, social justice, climate, and forestry have come together to set out 10 key priorities which they call on MEPs to endorse in their report

USDA Comment on the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home

To read IATP's full comment to the USDA, please download a PDF of the comment. 

Another false start in Africa sold with Green Revolution myths

Originally published on IPS News on April 20, 2021. Read the Spanish translation here. 

Opening a window in the “Cathedral of the Green Revolution”

The article below is the full interview with José Graziano da Silva.

IATP joins allies to request a meeting of the FAO director-general with civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations

Yesterday, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) joined Pesticide Action Network International (PAN International), civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations in sending a formal request to meet with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu.

AGRA Update: Withheld internal documents reveal no progress for Africa’s farmers

Internal evaluations carried out by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), recently obtained by the U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) campaign through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, show no new evidence that AGRA is making progress improving yields, incomes and food security for African farmers.