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IATP Statement: Derailment of TPP is a victory for Fair Trade Advocates

Minneapolis – The derailment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the lame duck session of Congress marks powerful progress toward fair trade. Since 2010, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, working with a coalition of human rights, environmental, labor and family farm organizations—indeed, nearly all of civil society—has been raising concerns about the TPP.

Derailment of TPP is a victory for Fair Trade Advocates

 The derailment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the lame duck session of Congress marks powerful progress toward fair trade.  Since 2010, the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, working with a coalition of human rights, environmental, labor, and family farm organizations – indeed, nearly all of civil society – has been raising concerns about the TPP.

Latin America is taking action against TPP today!

Today is a Latin America wide day of action against the disastrous effects so-called Free Trade Agreements have had in undermining governments and the will of the people. Below is a public statement from the organizing groups, translated into English by IATP's Karen Hansen-Kuhn:  PUBLIC STATEMENT

In the battle to win the TPP, has Obama forgotten the lessons of the Vietnam War?

Barack Obama continues to claim that he will manage to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) passed by Congress before the end of his presidential term on January 19, 2017.

Farm to Head Start in Minnesota: Planting the Seeds for a Community-centered Food System

This case study looks at a marketing initiative in two counties in Minnesota (MN), USA, which connects the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) with the Head Start Program run by the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (CAPRW) in Minnesota.

A return to low commodity prices and U.S. dumping

As international trade diplomats contemplate the latest move in their world—a formal complaint by the United States about China’s use of price supports for its farmers, lodged at the WTO last week—I am in Delhi to present IATP’s most recent findings of U.S. agricultural commodity dumping in export markets.

Connecting smallholders with markets

As the 43rd session of the UN Committee on Food Security meets in Rome this week they will finalize the negotiated draft recommendations on “connecting smallholders with markets”, developed with inputs from several hundreds of civil society organizations, including IATP. It has been a long process to get here.

Trade winds of change: charting a new course

From the Executive Director

The National Security Case for a TPP Lame Duck Vote: Not!

Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus on October 12, 2016 Translated into Spanish by Alejandro Villamar and published by ALAI (Agencia Latino Americana de Información)

Will the teeth of trade rules swallow the Paris climate deal?

Earlier this week, the European Parliament approved the Paris climate agreement, joining more than 60 other countries in signing the deal and paving the way for this historic global effort to enter into force. While the Paris deal is truly a major step forward, countries will have to overcome a series of hurdles created by trade agreements to reach their climate goals.