Publication archives

Aug 22, 2016

Let’s make sure the Clean Power Plan provides opportunity for rural, low-income communities

by
Tara Ritter
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Clean Power Plan, President Obama and the EPA’s regulation to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants.
Let’s make sure the Clean Power Plan provides opportunity for rural, low-income communities
Aug 18, 2016

Building alternatives for food systems and trade

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Public opposition to free trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that serve to increase inequality and concentrate corporate power has reached a loud crescendo.
Jul 28, 2016

“Nano Inc.? There’s been an accident on Highway 15”

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
This imaginary message from a truck driver hauling 15 tons of a nano-copper (Cu) and nano-silicon (Si) powder could one day be the start of a very real accident. To think through the scientific and practical aspects of accident response preparation and intervention, U.S.
Jul 28, 2016

Transatlantic NGO alliance proposes new rules for food safety and trade

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
While food and agriculture were not on the official agenda for the latest round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, July 11-15 in Brussels, the intense debate generated by Greenpeace Netherland’s leaks of 14 chapters of the draft agreement continue to reverberate through the trade policy world.
Jul 19, 2016

Seed Sovereignty and Climate Adaptation in Malawi

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