The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (“IATP”) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the above captioned NPRM. IATP last wrote to the Commission concerning electronic trading on May 1, 2017, regarding Regulation Automated Trading (“Reg AT”).
Overview
To view the presentation given on our webinar, Connecting Children With Local Foods and Farmers Through Summer Meal Programs, on August 20, 2020, please download the slides here.
It’s been nearly fifty years since Frances Moore Lappé reminded us in her seminal work, “Diet for a Small Planet,” that hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food, it is caused by a scarcity of power. Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize more than twenty years ago for showing that famine was rarely caused by a lack of food.
A discussion with two Maine congressional representatives and a longtime trade activist who has been involved at many levels. The efforts for fair trade are more important now than ever. View the presentation that Senior Attorney Sharon Treat delivered at the meeting on August 26, 2020.
A panel discussion with guests:
In response to AGRA’s brief official response to the study, “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA),” IATP rejects the attack on senior advisor Timothy A.
On July 14, the Financial Times published an interview with Heath Tarbert, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in which he all but announced the results of votes to take place the following week and beyond.
