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Percolate: Put Your Money Where Your Mug Is

January 22nd, 2013

It’s time to learn how you can help finance the coffee you are drinking today...and tomorrow. Join IATP’s food systems expert JoAnne Berkenkamp and Peace Coffee’s CEO and Queen Bean Lee Wallace for a discussion about a new model for social trade finance that connects coffee drinkers with the farmers who grow their favorite brew. Please register by contacting Marin Byrne at mbyrne@iatp.org or (612) 870-3411. Percolate is an opportunity, every other month, to join IATP in discussions about food, farming and trade. This isn’t just another lecture—come ready to participate!

Climate finance debated while climate change rages

One of the many fierce debates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (CoP), which opened this year on November 26 in Doha, Qatar is about climate finance.

Food MythBusters: The Real Story About What We Eat

December 5th, 2012

Has anyone ever said to you, "Don't we need industrial ag to feed the world?" The new short film, Food MythBusters from author, educator and sustainable food advocate Anna Lappé, is aimed at answering that question. Every day we are exposed to the myth that we need industrial ag to feed the world—Food MythBusters shows us how sustainable family farms are the key to growing food today and in the future. Land Stewardship Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Rainforest Action Network invite you to a screening of Food MythBusters on Wed

Food MythBusters: The Real Story About What We Eat

December 31st, 1969

Toxic flame retardants in household dust and couches

Two new studies published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology document routine exposure to toxic flame retardants in household dust and furniture.

Grow Ahead connects coffee drinkers and growers in alternative finance model

MINNEAPOLIS – A new approach to social trade finance and crowd funding is offering coffee lovers the chance to support the small-scale farmers that produce their favorite brew.

Put your money where your mug is: Finance the coffee you are drinking today...and tomorrow

The money in your mug. The nickel in your nip. The cashflow in your cup. What’s the connection and what does it have to do with you?

What's at stake for agriculture in COP 18?

The biggest threat for agriculture at the 18th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the certain likelihood (oxymoron intended) of “non-decisions” for setting ambitious emissions reduction targets for the post-2012 period, when the Kyoto Protocol’s first

Flyer for Agriculture in the Climate Talks and the Food Security Imperative

IATP co-hosted this side event at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in the Doha COP 18.    

IATP receives federal support for regional Farm to School innovation

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is pleased to announce that we’ve been chosen as a recipient by the USDA’s new Farm to School grant program.