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

Dear Ambassador Froman and Commissioner De Gucht,

Percolate: TTIP: The Biggest Trade Agreement You've Never Heard Of

July 23rd, 2013

Negotiators from the U.S. and Europe are busy working on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP. If passed, this would be the biggest trade agreement ever, with impacts far beyond what most people think of as "trade," and could seriously erode public goods and "the Commons" on both sides of the ocean. Join IATP's international trade expert Steve Suppan for a discussion of this behemoth free trade pact, how it could affect you and your community, and why so much of the official debate on something so important is being held in secret. Please register for the in

Parallel U.S. and EU delays in derivatives market regulation

A recent announcement by the European Commission has consequences for anyone affected by an interest rate, the price of oil or the price of wheat [read: everyone]. 

What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

July 1st, 2013

Join Congressman Keith Ellison and IATP President Jim Harkness at a community forum to learn about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest free-trade agreement the U.S. has ever attempted to negotiate. The TPP negotiations have included over 600 official corporate "trade advisors," but members of Congress, governors, state legislators, the press and the public are not allowed to know what is being discussed. It is time to lift the curtain on TPP.

Tara Ritter

Senior Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities

Tara Ritter was a senior program associate with IATP.

Measuring hunger: A Response to the FAO

In December 2012, I received an email from Frances (Frankie) Moore Lappé, a woman whose name I had known since I was a teenager interested in hunger and poverty issues and reading all I could on the subject. I was honored.

Framing hunger: A Response to the State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012

On March 12, 2013, a group of US and Canadian scholars and leaders of organizations addressing hunger submitted to the Director-General José Graziano da Silva of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations a document entitled “Communication for Discussion.”

Greening the CAP

As the U.S. Farm Bill debate drags on like a bad dream you can’t wake up from, Europe is entering the final stretch of multi-year negotiations on the 2014–2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). As with the Farm Bill, agreement on the CAP is far from a sure thing.

China, Smithfield and the Global Meat Industry - Slides

Slides from the June 18th webinar China, Smithfield and the Global Meat Industry. Video can be found at http://www.iatp.org/video/china-smithfield-and-the-global-meat-industry Youtube: http://youtu.be/FWtBayK8-WA  

Sickeningly Sweet

Robert H Lustig's slides from the March 18, 2013 webinar Sickly sweet: The science and policy of fructose overconsumption in America. Webinar can be found here: http://www.iatp.org/video/sickly-sweet-the-science-and-policy-of-fructose-overconsumption-in-america