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Women and agriculture: Discuss

I’ve been a feminist all my life. It had something to do with having three brothers and no sisters, perhaps—that and parents who encouraged me to be who I wanted to be.  It had to do, too, with the sexism I experienced. The school careers councillor who suggested that it might be awkward to be a diplomat because it would mean my husband would have to follow my career, for example.

WEBINAR: Moving ahead on food justice

IATP's Food + Justice = Democracy conference was a call to action to people from every community, ethnic group, class and gender identity. If you weren't able to attend, here's your chance.

Chiko the Cat says support IATP to the max

Dear Friends, Give to the Max Day in Minnesota is a special day to support your favorite Minnesota nonprofits.

Food, toxics and ADHD: Old fears, ever stronger science

A Harvard study just published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine journal, associates a mother's low level exposure to mercury while pregnant with greater risk of her child later developing ADHD-related behavior.

Money, politics and food

It didn’t make headlines, but Tuesday was the start of an important movement to reform our food and agriculture system by restoring our democracy.

Government's seat at the dinner table

This piece is an introduction to a new collection of commentaries by the IATP Food and Community Fellows, originally published on www.foodandcommunityfellows.org.

An open letter to G-20 finance ministers: The world needs leadership on finance reform

George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Government of the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, European Commission Ikko Nataksuka, Minister of State for Financial Services, Government of Japan

Dialogue on Transformation

November 1st - November 3rd, 2012

Today’s world faces increasingly interlinked global crises such as hunger, poverty, global warming, social injustice in different sectors, in large part due to the way the global finance and economic architecture is structured. At the same time, the geopolitical situation of the world is changing. Greater reflection needs to take place on how civil society organizations engage with these crises and foster a much deeper systemic shift based on revisiting global, regional and national institutions and their approaches and strategies deployed by governments, the private sector.

No Time to Lose: 147 Studies Supporting Public Health Action to Reduce Antibiotic Overuse in Food Animals

Hundreds of studies to date, and ever-strengthening science, tie the spreading epidemic of resistant infections in humans to routine antibiotic use in food animals. This is a select summary of that science across several critical strands of evidence.

The CFS comes of age

I came away from the 39th session of UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) last Saturday tired but hopeful. In a world where many are skeptical of global institutions' ability to solve the world’s most challenging problems—not least of which, climate change—the CFS offers a new approach to global governance, and is getting results.