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Promises and Perils of the TTIP: Negotiating a Transatlantic Agricultural Market

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It’s time to move Beyond the Farm Bill

The Farm Bill was designed to reign in price volatility, manage supply and protect nature while providing vital nutrition programs for the country’s poor. Instead, it’s been ravaged by constant corporate assault and a Congress too emboldened with industry money to stand up for our best interests.

Dr. M Jahi Chappell at the World Food Prize

IATP's Director of Agriculture, Jahi Chappell speaking at The World Food Prize on October 18, 2013.

Celebrate World Food Day at the Bell Museum with Sheelu Francis

October 16th, 2013

RSVP now. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Bell Museum of Natural History invite you to a World Food Day event featuring Sheelu Francis of the Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective, honoree at the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize. The Tamil Nadu Women’s Collective in southern India has organized over 100,000 marginalized women, many in unofficial worker unions or small collective farms, to strengthen their food sovereignty and thus their broader power. In addition to organizing locally and nationally on issues from their own families’ food security to land rights to oppos

World Food Day at the Bell Museum with Sheelu Francis

On World Food Day, IATP and the Bell Museum of Natural History hosted Sheelu Francis of the Tamil Nadu Women's Collective, honoree at the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize.

TTIP/TAFTA

TTIP/TAFTA Blog

Read more about TTIP/TAFTA

Letter to President Barack Obama, President Juan Manuel Barroso and President Herman Van Rompuy regarding the TTIP

Trade Secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with U.S.

European Commission's initial position papers on TTIP

EU-US trade deal: A bumper crop for "big food"?

Upping the ante in the TTIP: Let’s add financial services and call your bluff

Group letter to Ambassador Michael Froman and Commissioner Karel De Gucht regarding the TTIP

Civil Society Symposium on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Lessons on globalization from Colombia’s uprising

Trade deal to undermine health, environmental standards

Biotech industry moves toward “transparency” while pulling the curtain over trade agreements

Repealing the Monsanto Protection Act

IATP welcomes new staff

Pete Huff and Dr. M. Jahi Chappell have joined IATP’s staff this fall and together will be leading the organization’s efforts to further a sustainable, diversified and prosperous agriculture and food system.

Scaling Up Agroecology

If there was a silver lining in the disastrous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development.

Scaling Up Agroecology

If there was a silver lining in the disastrous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development.

Food democracy: Rule of the people or corporations?

This piece was produced by IATP intern John Parker for IATP's Beyond the Farm Bill. When it comes to faith in our democracy, this year has raised some eyebrows. In the case of food and agriculture policy, a disturbing fact emerges: Our democracy is increasingly a façade.