Forestry

How US Grain Export Projections from Large Scale Agricultural Sector Models Compare With Reality

Minneapolis - Grain export projections used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and agriculture policy-makers have consistently over-estimated actual exports, according to a new study by Dr. C. Phillip Baumel, a professor of economics at Iowa State University.

Sustainable Agriculture: Making Money, Making Sense

This issue brief reviews the current economic and agircultural research on the financial impact of sustainable farming on farmers in the United States. If profitability means the measure of return to the farmer, is sustainable farming profitable? Have specific types of sustainable agricultural systems been found to decrease the cost of production and thus raise farm income?

Trade, Agriculture, and Climate Change

This assessment exposes the ways that current agricultural trade policies contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions by substantially increasing the energy intensity of food production, processing, packaging and distribution systems.

Mississippi River Navigation: Helping the Midwest Compete with South American Soybeans?

This paper assesses the international soybean market and how the race to capture new international markets has impacted U.S. farmers and rural communities.

Feeding the World? The Upper Mississippi River Navigation Project (printable ver)

The US Army Corp of Engineers is currently conducting a seven year study on the need for navigational improvements on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers and to quantify the environmental impacts of providing these improvements. Several multi billion dollar proposals are currently under consideration and

World Trade Organization and the Human Right to Food Security, The

Speech presented to the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. August 29, 1999

Ownership of Life

Genetic patenting

Full Cost, Life-Cycle Accounting and Pricing for Sustainable Development:

An assessment of the applicability of full cost, life-cycle accounting and pricing to agriculture.

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.

NAFTA and the Great Lakes. A Preliminary Survey of Environmental Implications

IATP partnered with Great Lakes United and the Canadian Environmental Law Association to examine the environmental havoc NAFTA could cause on the Great Lakes. IATP wrote the chapter titled "Case Study 2: NAFTA's Impact on Agriculture in the Great Lakes Basin"