Publication archives

Jul 19, 2016

Seed Sovereignty and Climate Adaptation in Malawi

by
Timothy Wise
You wouldn’t have known from the farmers gathered in Lobi, in the Dedza area of central Malawi, that drought had seriously depressed harvests. To be sure, they hadn’t suffered the worst of the country’s devastating heat and dry spell. Farmers to the south saw crops wither in their baked fields; some never even bothered to plant.
Malawi Farmers
Jul 14, 2016

Celebrating common sense?

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Last week, there was a bit of good news on the trade front: on July 8, tobacco giant Philip Morris lost its ridiculous case against Uruguay’s cigarette labeling laws.
Jul 12, 2016

Corporate Meat's Takeover through TTIP

by
Shefali Sharma
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s European Office, along with international group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), German member of Via Campesina—Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft e.V.
Corporate Meat's Takeover through TTIP
Jul 11, 2016

Selling Off the Farm

by
Sharon Anglin Treat
Shefali Sharma
Executive Summary
Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meat's Takeover Through TTIP
Jun 30, 2016

Thoughts After Brexit

The outcome of the referendum in the United Kingdom is worth some thoughts about our future as Europeans.
Jun 30, 2016

Climate change without a plan

by
Ben Lilliston
On a wintry day in March, residents from Winona, Minnesota gathered around tables with flip charts and markers to develop a plan for how the Mississippi River community could respond to climate change.
Climate change without a plan
Jun 29, 2016

The Clean Power Plan

The Clean Power Plan is the most significant policy shaping the future of the United States’ energy sector. As such, it will affect rural communities that have long produced much of the nation’s energy supply. Although rural counties house only 15 percent of U.S.
Jun 28, 2016

Monsanto wins on Senate GMO labeling “compromise”

by
Ben Lilliston
On July 1, Vermont’s law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods will go into effect. That simple requirement to inform consumers about what they are eating sent a shiver through a Congress hooked on millions of dollars in biotech and food industry money.