Food security

UN Committee on Food Security Links Water with Food and Nutrition Security

In its 42nd session, the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) two weeks ago made landmark recommendations linking water with food security and nutrition.

2015 Food Sovereignty Prize

2015 U.S. Food Sovereignty Prize, was presented in Des Moines on October 14, 2015. The Food Sovereignty Prize is awarded by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which IATP is a member organization. The US Food Sovereignty Alliance works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system.

G7 food initiative driving hunger in African countries, say global civil society groups

Minneapolis–Politicians and executives from some of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies are today meeting in Cape Town, South Africa for the leadership council of the controversial New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.

Launch of CFS Report on Water for Food Security and Nutrition-Why it Matters

While it might seem obvious that the rights to water and food are inextricably linked, all too often policies around their use and governance are developed for one without regard to the other. To address this problem, the UN Committee on World Food Security formed a High Level Panel of Experts and charged it with weaving these two policy strands together.

Food Sovereignty Series: Dr. Jahi Chappell, IATP’s Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy

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The Historic Nyéléni Declaration on Agroecology

Last week, a landmark event took place in Mali.

Food Sovereignty Series: Nora McKeon, author of Food Security Governance

Nora McKeon is the author of "Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations." Nora formerly worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and continues to be very active around food systems, food governance, small-scale farmer movements, and UN-civil society relations.

Report: Fungicide resistance poses serious threat to human health, agriculture

Minneapolis – The beneficial effects of fungicides are rapidly dwindling, opening a vulnerability to fungi in plants and animals, says a new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).

“Conversations” on technological utopias vs. tackling structural injustice in the global food system

This year’s World Food Prize and Borlaug Dialogue, held from October 17–19, 2014 in Des Moines, Iowa once again brought together the big gun stakeholders in industrial agriculture, and provided many insights to the current framing on the global food security challenge.

Recognizing food sovereignty

IATP, as a member of the U.S.