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WEBINAR: Farm to School & Youth Leadership Part 2: Strengthening Farm to School

This two part webinar series will introduce participants to IATP's high school level Farm to School Youth Leadership Curriculum. The curriculum is designed to empower youth, teach them about their local food system, engage them in meaningful, hands-on learning activities that also strengthen their school’s Farm to School program and link them directly to farmers in their community.

02/17/2015 Farm to School & Youth Leadership Webinar Part 2 slides

 Slides from the Farm to School Youth Leadership webinar on 02/17/2015.

Fast Track to (More) False Promises

In his State of the Union address, President Obama urged Congress to renew Trade Promotion Authority, often called “Fast Track,” to complete two controversial international trade deals currently under negotiation, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partn

Fast Track to an Empty Basket

Take Action to Stop Fast Track: http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1034/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16706 http://www.iatp.org/tradesecrets/takeaction.html

Food Sovereignty Series: Dr. Jahi Chappell, IATP’s Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy

March 17th, 2015

IATP's Food Sovereignty series is Free and open to the public. RSVP Now Make plans now to attend IATP’s Food Sovereignty series throughout the month of March. Join us on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, to hear Dr. Jahi Chappell, IATP’s Director Agroecology and Agriculture Policy programs shares his knowledge of how agroecology is the key to food sovereignty. Taking us from the Irish potato famine to today, we will examine how food sovereignty can become a reality. br /> Agroecology looks at how agriculture, society and the environment interact. It is a cutting-edge scientific fie

Food Sovereignty Series: Jose Oliva, Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance

March 12th, 2015

IATP's Food Sovereignty series is Free and open to the public. RSVP Now Make plans now to attend IATP’s Food Sovereignty series throughout the month of March. Join us on March 12, meet Jose Oliva, Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a national coalition that collectively represents over 250,000 workers. The Alliance’s worker-based organizations, whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, are organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. About the series Food sovereignty speaks to the

Food Sovereignty Series: Nora McKeon, author of Food Security Governance

March 2nd, 2015

IATP's Food Sovereignty series is Free and open to the public. RSVP now Make plans now to attend IATP’s Food Sovereignty series throughout the month of March. Join us for Nora McKeon, author of "Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities, Regulating Corporations." Nora formerly worked for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and continues to be very active around food systems, food governance, small-scale farmer movements, and UN-civil society relations. She coordinates a program of exchange and advocacy with African and European small-scale farmers’ organizations. Abo

Conservation, Climate, and CAFOs

Recommended changes to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farm program designed to encourage conservation, may instead promote the expansion of factory farms that harm the climate. EQIP is administered by the U.S.

TTIP and Animal Welfare

February 26th, 2015

Midwest Bioeconomy and Safer Products Summit

Minneapolis – Business, political, academic, and community leaders will convene in Pohlad Hall at the Minneapolis Central Library on Thursday, February 19th, 2015 to explore how the rapidly growing Bioeconomy and green chemistry sectors in the Midwest are providing clean, safe and economical solutions to many of the problems that face us here and around the world.