Food security

It’s not just the price of food, stupid

Eric Holt-Giménez, director of the amazing food policy think tank FoodFirst, recently wrote in the Huffington Post that if healthy, organic food is unaffordable, this is a problem of wages and rights, not inherently a problem with healthy, organic foods.

Remarks to the World Food Prize Panel on “Stakeholders & synergies: Socio-economic dimensions of sustainable ag”

These are the remarks of M. Jahi Chappell, Ph.D., IATP's director of agroecology and agriculture policy to the World Food Prize on October 18, 2013. Videos of Dr.

Dr. M Jahi Chappell at the World Food Prize

IATP's Director of Agriculture, Jahi Chappell speaking at The World Food Prize on October 18, 2013.

World Food Day at the Bell Museum with Sheelu Francis

On World Food Day, IATP and the Bell Museum of Natural History hosted Sheelu Francis of the Tamil Nadu Women's Collective, honoree at the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize.

IATP welcomes new staff

Pete Huff and Dr. M. Jahi Chappell have joined IATP’s staff this fall and together will be leading the organization’s efforts to further a sustainable, diversified and prosperous agriculture and food system.

Science means having to say “I’m Sorry”

I’m sorry, but saying that the Green Revolution saved millions of lives is unscientific.

Kenya’s challenge: How best to manage its new-found water wealth?

In the midst of worrisome news about droughts, desertification, unreliable monsoons and growing concerns around water security around the world, the announcement by the UNESCO and Kenyan officials at the recent International Water Security Conference in

Food and National Security: The Shuanghui-Smithfield Merger Revisited

Last week, the U.S. treasury approved the largest takeover by an international firm of a U.S. food company. It paved the way for China’s largest pork processor, Shuanghui, to merge with Smithfield, the U.S.’s largest pork processor.