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Radio Sustain August 01, 2012

August 1, 2012: LaDonna Redmond, community activist and IATP staffer, talks food justice and IATP’s upcoming national conference Food + Justice = Democracy.

Percolate: Frac Sand Mining in our Backyard

September 25th, 2012

Frac sand mining is at the nexus of extreme and dangerous energy production. What can we do to stop it? Join IATP Vice President for Communications Dale Wiehoff for a look at frac sand mining in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Learn who’s doing it, why it’s happening here, and how it has implications for the local environment, the climate, and the ability of small towns across America to prevent outsiders from exploiting their natural resources. Please register by contacting Marin Byrne at mbyrne@iatp.org or (612) 870-3411. Percolate is an opportunity, every other month, to jo

West Broadway Coalition to lead North Minneapolis Mini Farmer Market Network

MINNEAPOLIS – The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has selected the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition (WBC) to serve as one of four organizations to assume leadership of IATP’s network of mini farmers markets in Minneapolis.

Minnesota FoodShare program to lead Mini Farmers Market Network

MINNEAPOLIS – The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has selected Minnesota FoodShare, a program of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches (GMCC), to serve as one of four organizations to assume leadership of IATP’s network of mini farmers markets in Minneapolis.

Chipocrisy: Will Chipotle add fair labor to its definition of sustainability?

Steve Ells is doing a great thing. It’s not just the Chipotle founder and CEO’s decision to buy organic, or local, or avoid antibiotics in animal products. It’s not even his focus on ethically raised meat. No, his greatest contribution is one of omission. While nationwide protests urge Mr.

Taking ownership of good food: Minneapolis neighborhoods take the lead on Mini Market project

Six years ago, an IATP intern with a bright idea and a lot of determination launched what has become known fondly as the Minneapolis “Mini Market” project.  With technical assistance and support from IATP, a wide variety of public housing facilities, churches, hospitals and neighborhood-based organizations have launched small farmers markets in

Freezing regulation while the climate heats up

One of the many ironies of the U.S. Farm Bill debate over crop insurance and revenue “assurance” programs was a tacit bipartisan agreement not to say in public four words that summarized major drivers in creating the proposed programs. The U.S.

Screening and panel: American Meat

August 1st, 2012

IATP, in partnership with Birchwood Cafe, presents American Meat on Wednesday August 1st.

IATP comment to FDA regarding draft guidance for industry on nanotechnology in food and food-contact surfaces

IATP submitted this comment to the Office of Additive Safety, U.S.

WEBINAR: Black Men in the Food System: Roles and Opportunities, Rural to Urban

Join three dynamic IATP Food and Community Fellows, Malik Yakini of the Detroit Black Food Security Network, Haile Johnston from Common Market Philadelphia, and Kelvin Graddick, a young farmer who manages the West Georgia Farmers Cooperative, as they discuss the roles and opportunities for Black men in the food system both through a rural and urban lens.