[Watch] How EQIP can be improved to serve more farmers & the climate

A new report, Costly versus cost-effective: How EQIP can be improved to serve more farmers and the climate, from IATP published on April 2, 2024 finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no co

Environmental Quality Incentives Program funds expensive industrial agriculture practices, turns aspiring conservationists away

MINNEAPOLIS—A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that an outsized share of the funding for the conservation program Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) financed expensive practices with little or no conservation benefits, while two-thirds of farmer applicants were rejected from the program

Costly versus cost-effective

This report takes a close look at the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a farmer-focused conservation cost-share program. In the report, we examine the agricultural practices that EQIP helps farmers finance, how much funding went toward these practices in Fiscal Year 2023, including additional funding through the Inflation Reduction Act.

EE.UU. intenta imponer a México maíz transgénico potencialmente peligroso

La posición de EE.UU. se basa en un régimen regulador falso que no garantiza la seguridad de los OGM México justifica plenamente la prohibición del maíz transgénico para productos de maíz básico 

NSAC Comments on the Fiscal Year 25 CSAF List

The following comment was sent to Deputy Chief, Science and Technology Noller Herbert and National Climate Coordinator Dana Ashford-Kornburger of the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture on March 15, 2024.  Deputy Chief Herbert and Coordinator Ashford-Kornburger,

Submission to the dispute panel on measures concerning GE corn by IATP, the Rural Coalition and the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas

The following submission was made to the dispute settlement panel in MEX-USA-2023-31-01 under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement USMCA on March 14, 2024.