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A Defaut Des Agriculteurs Africains : Un Nouveau Rapport Montre Que La Revolution Verte Africaine “Échoue À Ses Propres Conditions”

Il y a quatorze ans, les fondations Bill et Melinda Gates et Rockefeller ont lancé l’Alliance pour une révolution verte en Afrique (AGRA) dans le but d’apporter à l’Afrique sa propre révolution verte en matière de productivité agricole.

IATP’s response to the Minneapolis City Council’s pledge to defund the police

For over two decades, IATP’s main office has been located in the ward of Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender.

Letter to the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) thanks the Committee for seeking input on the climate crisis, the most critical challenge of our time. IATP is a 34-year-old non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. IATP works to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

IATP Tribute to Rod Leonard

Rod Leonard, one of the co-inventors in the 1960s of federal food assistance programs, including Women, Infants and Children (WIC), free and reduced-price school lunches, and a precursor to the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), died on June 13 in Winona, Minnesota, at age 90.

Milking the Planet

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Time to hold agribusiness accountable for its climate footprint

IATP’s new study on Big Dairy makes the connection between emissions and the rural crisis

New Report Finds Dramatic Increase in Global Dairy Companies' Emissions as Overproduction Forces Small Farms Out of Business

BERLIN/MINNEAPOLIS—A new report released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reveals that the total combined greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 13 of the largest dairy corporations rose by 11% in just two years (2015-2017), with some increasing their emissions by 30%.

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Senate climate bill prioritizes markets over the climate

Today, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) introduced the Growing Climate Solutions Act, a bill that would create a certification program through USDA to facilitate farmer participation in voluntary carbon mark

IATP Statement on the Death of George Floyd

The death of George Floyd in the custody of a Minneapolis police officer on Monday night profoundly saddened all of us at IATP. Minneapolis is the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s home, and we are grounded in our community.  We continue to deeply feel and grapple with the immense injustice of Mr. Floyd’s death and the evolving events that have followed in ou