International

Water Note #3: A Fact Sheet on Water Privatization

Up until the 1990s, water and sewerage services in most countries were a state/public responsibility. It was only in the 1990s that multinational led water privatization increased along with infrastructure privatization in general in the developing world.

Farm Bill Outrage Goes Global

The WTO trade rules for agriculture and the U.S. Farm Bill share the same flawed vision for food production.

Managing the Invisible Hand

Report examining the weaknesses of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture and how it will not succeed in helping farmers and economic development until it addresses the market power held by transnational corporations. The full report, Executive Summary and press release are below.

The Water Business

You have probably never heard of the quasi-governmental International Organization for Standards (ISO).

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is pleased to submit comments concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

Re: Public Comments on the Built-In Agenda at the WTO

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) submited comments to the U.S. Trade Representative concerning the built-in agenda at the WTO. The comments below are focused specifically on the Agreement on Agriculture and TRIPs. A more general note on the WTO negotiations is provided by way of introduction.

WHO: Global Food Safety Rules Needed

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The world needs new food safety rules because increased global food trade means health problems can spread rapidly from country to country, the head of the U.N. health agency said Monday.

Response from NGOs on Water Classification in GATS

RESPONSE ON WATER CLASSIFICATION IN "COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THEIR MEMBER STATES GATS 2000: Environmental Services" S/CSS/W/38 March 6, 2001 Submitted by Alliance for Democracy Center for International Environmental Law, Friends of the Earth, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Public Citizen Submitted to Mr.

WTO Food and Agriculture Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human RIght to Food

Published in the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, Winter 2000, Vol. 9, Issue 1. This paper was also a presentation given by Mark Ritchie at the International Cooperative Agricultural Organization General Assembly in Quebec City, Quebec on August 29, 1999. The focus of this paper is the the impact of agricultural export dumping by grain corporations based in the U.S.

WTO: What's at Stake?

Backgrounder on the WTO produced by IATP after the Seattle WTO Ministerial,