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"Climate Smart Agriculture" isn’t. Agroecology is.

As the science and practice of agroecology provides a way forward to address food insecurity, rural poverty, climate change, drought and water scarcity it is encountering an intentionally misleading campaign called "Climate Smart Agriculture," being promoted by the World Bank, FAO, and newly launched corporate-dominated Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture.

Corporations represent at UN climate summit

The controversial Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) was officially launched yesterday at the U.N. Climate Summit.

Why we need agroecology, now

On Monday, the Carbon Underground, Rodale Institute and Organic Consumers Association held a press conference featuring leading scientists to explain why cutting emissions alone won’t solve climate change, and how nurturing healthier soil is an essential p

Corporate-Smart Greenwash: Why we reject the Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture

Joint letter explaining why GACSA is unacceptable and will do nothing to mitigate climate damage. Climate-smart agriculture, promoted under GACSA, will only serve as a new promotional space for the planet's worst social and environmental offenders in agriculture.

Real solutions from agriculture at the People's Climate March

IATP’s Tara Ritter is blogging from New York City as she attends the NYC Climate Convergence and the People's Climate March. Saturday 9/20/2014

Sobering 2050 weather reports are dispatches from a warmer world

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is taking a new approach to engage the public on climate change: invite television weather forecasters around the world to release weather reports from the year 2050.

UN Human Rights Council Takes on Corporations

The UN’s Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution today for a binding International treaty to regulate human rights violations of transnational corporations.

IATP’s Shiney Varghese to serve on UN High Level Panel of Experts on water and food security

Food, farming, livelihoods—no matter what you’re looking at, water is there, and when it’s not, things start to fall apart. California is facing currently its worst drought on record.

A path toward better agricultural investment

The food crisis of 2008 led to a broad agreement in the agricultural development community that the lack of appropriate investment in agriculture had been a key contributing factor to unstable prices and food insecurity. The crisis coincided with an increase in land grabbing in many parts of the world, but especially in Africa.

Why is the U.S. Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right?

On November 21, 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” There, all UN member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living.