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International Women’s Day: Protesting violence and protecting livelihoods

As the world was getting ready to usher in the New Year, most Indians were mourning the death of one of their young women, gang-raped on the night of December 16 on a bus that she boarded along with her companion.

TPP: Doubling down on failed trade policy

The 16th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) began this week in Singapore.

Webinar: Sickly sweet: The science and policy of fructose overconsumption in America

March 18th, 2013

Register America’s’ sweet-laden diet is helping drive obesity and chronic metabolic disease. Join Dr. Robert Lustig, noted pediatrician, neuroendocrinologist and author, as he explores the science behind this phenomenon, as laid out in his new book, Fat Chance. Lustig also addresses America’s fructose addiction as an outgrowth of bad policies and a bad environment. His research reveals how food industry practices lay the groundwork for overconsumption of fructose, how government policy first enabled them, and then more recently turned a blind eye as sugar politics became charged.

Who’s at the Table? Demanding Answers on Agriculture in the Trans-Pacific Partnership

New report: Governments must protect land, food systems as trade liberalization accelerates land grabbing

IATP has always argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalization that privileges commercial interests and tramples on public interests. In a new paper on land grabs, we reaffirm that position.

Ambition in the agriculture sector

Overview: Agriculture and the climate change challenge

Change in the wind on food aid?

Washington D.C. is a gloomy place these days, with grey skies and a weirdly warm winter, the sour prospect of failure around the sequestration debate, and more cuts on the horizon. It’s possible, however, that on international food aid there just might be a silver lining to all that gloom.

35 groups band together to ask for more on antibiotics in animal agriculture

Yesterday, IATP joined 34 other groups in writing to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Groups welcome the release of administration proposal for international food aid reform

Washington, D.C., February 26, 2013 – The below groups welcome reports that the Administration may propose helpful reforms to the U.S. food assistance program in its FY2014 budget submission to Congress.

Public Health Enhancements to the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA)

IATP, along with 34 other KAW coalition members, sent this group letter to Congress to urge that the re-authorization of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) include provisions to help preserve the efficacy of antibiotics vital to protecting public health.