Publication archives

Oct 20, 2016

Farm to Head Start in Minnesota: Planting the Seeds for a Community-centered Food System

by
Erin McKee VanSlooten
Shiney Varghese
This case study looks at a marketing initiative in two counties in Minnesota (MN), USA, which connects the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) with the Head Start Program run by the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties (CAPRW) in Minnesota.
Farm to Child Care: A no-brainer for healthy kids
Oct 20, 2016

A return to low commodity prices and U.S. dumping

by
Sophia Murphy
As international trade diplomats contemplate the latest move in their world—a formal complaint by the United States about China’s use of price supports for its farmers, lodged at the WTO last week—I am in Delhi to present IATP’s most recent findings of U.S. agricultural commodity dumping in export markets.
Oct 19, 2016

Connecting smallholders with markets

by
Shiney Varghese
As the 43rd session of the UN Committee on Food Security meets in Rome this week they will finalize the negotiated draft recommendations on “connecting smallholders with markets”, developed with inputs from several hundreds of civil society organizations, including IATP. It has been a long process to get here.
Connecting smallholders with markets
Oct 18, 2016

Trade winds of change: charting a new course

by
Juliette Majot
From the Executive Director
Oct 14, 2016

The National Security Case for a TPP Lame Duck Vote: Not!

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus on October 12, 2016 Translated into Spanish by Alejandro Villamar and published by ALAI (Agencia Latino Americana de Información)
Oct 5, 2016

Will the teeth of trade rules swallow the Paris climate deal?

by
Ben Lilliston
Earlier this week, the European Parliament approved the Paris climate agreement, joining more than 60 other countries in signing the deal and paving the way for this historic global effort to enter into force. While the Paris deal is truly a major step forward, countries will have to overcome a series of hurdles created by trade agreements to reach their climate goals.
Will the teeth of trade rules swallow the Paris climate deal?
Oct 4, 2016

Political momentum on water raises red flags

by
Shiney Varghese
On 21 September 2016 the United Nations (U.N.) newly convened High-level Panel on Water (HLPW), called for a fundamental shift in the way the world looks at water.
Oct 3, 2016

Celebrating National Farm to School Month

by
Katie Costello
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is celebrating because October is National Farm to School Month! For 30 years, IATP has been at the center of the local food movement, presenting an alternative vision to factory farming and industrial food. Nowhere is this work seen more profoundly than in our Farm to Institution Program.
Celebrating National Farm to School Month