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Uprooted is the podcast from IATP, hosted by Director of Development and Communications, Josh Wise. IATP's work touches many areas from the international to the local arenas, and Uprooted aims to put our work in understandable terms while connecting the dots to how what happens in the global arena is felt locally, and what localities can do to solve global problems.

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NAFTA 101

August 14th, 2017

Peace Coffee Shop- Wonderland Park 3262 Minnehaha Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55406 RSVP today! Join IATP to get up to speed on the last 25 years of NAFTA and what to expect for food and farms as it is renegotiated.

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series Blog

Community Food Systems

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Our four-part Farm to Early Care webinar series is designed to empower anyone working in an early care and education setting to purchase fresh locally-grown foods, incorporate food- and farming-themed lessons into the classroom, and engage parents and caregivers in Farm to Early Care activities. Farm to Early Care programs are good for kids, good for farmers and good for communities.

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series Part One: Nutrition Staff Training

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series Part Two: Doing it Right! Best Practices for CACFP Compliance and On-Farm Food Safety Assessment

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series Part Three: Teaching Staff Training

Farm to Early Care Webinar Series Part Four: How to purchase local foods for your Early Care setting

Farm to Head Start training

Farm to Childcare

Farm to Head Start

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Trump's action plan with China puts global agribusiness first

Politicians and headline writers often tout new trade announcements as big wins for U.S. farmers and ranchers. Almost never do they declare plainly, and more accurately: this deal is a big win for global agribusiness! Conflating the interests of global agribusiness operating in multiple countries and U.S. farmers’ is a misleading spin that serves corporate interests over the rest of us.

Impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Migrant Workers in the U.S.

Speech given by Karen Lehman to the Association of Farmeworker Opportunity Programs.

NAFTA: The Facts. An International Bill of Rights for Transnational Corporations

NAFTA renegotiation objectives fall short for farmers and the planet

The release of the Trump administration’s objectives for renegotiating NAFTA confirm the suspicions of fair trade advocates that President Trump would break his promise to create trade deals that are in the public interest. The negotiating objectives, which failed to incorporate input from civil society organizations despite detailed and extensive proposals, continue the administration’s trend of putting multinational corporations’ narrow interests first by using the same blueprint that shaped the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Candidate Trump railed against the TPP: Trum

The biotech trade empire strikes back—at USDA!

The American Farm Bureau organized letter on proposed new rules regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops is short, just two pages, with three pages of agribusiness signatories, 103 organizations.

Comment on Importation, Interstate Movement, and Environmental Release of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms

U.S. Department of Agriculture  June 19, 2017 Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD APHIS Station 3A-03.8 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MN 20737-1238 Proposed Rule: Importation, Interstate Movement, and Environmental Release of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms (Docket No. APHIS–2015–0057)1 (“Proposed Rule”)

I Dig My Farmer Promotional Materials

Here you will find free "I Dig My Farmer" resources to help you promote your Farm to School program. These customizable materials will allow you to feature and celebrate your local farmers and their products. We hope you will find these materials useful for your Farm to School Month Celebrations and throughout the year!