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The future of agriculture

Ask anyone who's been working on policy-change or advocacy efforts in any arena long enough and they’ll tell you: Change takes time. Except in very rare cases, big, noticeable shifts take years—often decades—of work by countless people, working on all levels and in different ways to achieve change. On one hand, this glacial pace makes sense.

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

The launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations presents a new challenge to commodity and financial market reform. Those reforms, codified in the U.S.

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

Earlier this week, Andrew Pollack reported in the New York Times that biotech companies like Monsanto, Dupont and Dow Chemical announced through an industry association that they would be more transparent with the public about the chemicals and genetically modified

Alberta Clipper Tar Sand Oil Pipeline Expansion in Minnesota

August 8th, 2013

Enbridge Oil has petitioned the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for permission to expand the quantity of tar sand oil pumped through the “Alberta Clipper” pipeline which runs across all of northern Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin and on to Illinois. The first phase of the expanded pumping has been approved by the PUC, and if Enbridge receives final approval, it would double the current capacity of highly toxic tar sand oil passing through Minnesota to 880,000 barrels a day. Join IATP President Jim Harkness and Marty Cobenais of the Indigenous Environmental

Celebrating the IATP Food and Community Fellows

In late June, alumni from the past eight classes of the IATP Food and Community Fellows program met for the last time against the backdrop of the Snoqualmie Falls outside of Seattle. Almost every class was represented at the event heldand its alumni and to discuss the future of the network within the context of the larger food movement.

Understanding Dumping: How U.S. crop prices hurt the world's farmers

Introduction to the impact of dumping below cost of production U.S. commodities on farmers in the developing world.

Fruits of NAFTA

In the early morning hours Monday, on a remote road near the Texas-Mexico border, Mexican marines picked a deadly and rotten piece of fruit when it captured Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the sadistic boss of Los Zetas criminal cartel.

A long and winding road to global derivatives market reform

In September 2009, the Group of 20 Leaders, including President Barack Obama, announced their commitment to regulate the over-the-counter (OTC) commodity and financial derivatives market.

Letter on cross-border OTC derivatives regulation

We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern at the lack of progress in developing workable cross-border rules as part of reforms of the OTC derivatives market.

Welcome & Opening Panel - What's at Stake | Sierra Club Trans-Atlantic Trade Symposium

Welcome Debbie Sease, Sierra Club Opening Panel: What's at Stake Virginia Robnett, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (moderator) Lori Wallach, Public Citizen (TAFTA context) Natacha Cingotti, Friends of the Earth Europe (European perspectives) Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO (labor perspectives)