Join the Ethnographies of Empire Research Cluster at American University School of International Service for a public webinar on the international significance of the largest protest in recorded history. In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, climate change and state repression, Indian farmers contest corporate capture and demand fair prices and agrarian justice. Now what?
Download a PDF of the letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative sent on February 1, 2021 regarding the U.S.
This week U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai will meet with her counterparts from Canada and Mexico at the first U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting, covering a range of issues from labor rights to softwood lumber to the very different ways our countries manage dairy supplies (or leave it to the whims of corporate-led markets).
The emergence of the climate crisis presents new and urgent challenges for U.S. agriculture, as well as the imperative to learn from successful examples to reduce emissions while continuing to provide healthy and affordable food.
The Biden administration’s approach to the climate crisis has been all-hands-on-deck. That means all departments and agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are supposed to report to the White House on climate action steps.
In practice, financial markets often operate very differently from how they should operate according to investment theory. Markets are supposed to discover prices freely through a process of transparent bids, offers and price settlement mediated by neutral exchanges.
Download a PDF of the testimony in support of LD 1600, "An Act To Investigate Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Contamination of Land and Groundwater”.
