Biodiversity

Performance Based Approach to Control of Agricultural Non Point Source Pollution

August 2003 white paper from IATP and IEC. Nonpoint source pollution (NPS) from agriculture is elusive in its definition and control.

A New Agricultural Policy for the United States

By Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy, and Loni Kemp with the Minnesota Project.  This report was produced for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainability on November 2002.

Past and Future Grain Traffic on the Missouri River

An examination of grain traffic patters on the Missouri River, including Army Corps of Engineers' forecasts versus reality.

Marketing Sustainable Agriculture - Case Studies and Analysis from Europe

Innovative marketing strategies are crucial to the success of sustainable and organic agriculture. Gaining insights from successful strategies is the purpose of the publication Marketing Sustainable Agriculture: Case Studies and Analysis from Europe.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

Growing water uses in the basin, combined with climate change, population growth, land use and other changes, will lead to a combination of decreasing water availability and placing an ever increasing value on fresh water. This report outlines a research agenda for agriculture, trade and water quantity management in the Great Lakes-St.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

A research agenda for assessing water quantity issues for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin system

Nitrogen and the Upper Mississippi River

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

Battle Royale of the 21st Century

Sterile Fields:The Impacts Of IPR's And Trade On Biodiversity And Food Security, November 1996

The cultivation of diversity has been incorporated as a high art by human cultures through millenia. With the know-how of generations of experience, farmers have learned to provide food crops well-adapted to local soils and water cycles.