Publication archives

Dec 19, 2013

WEBINAR: Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets -- A Hospital-Focused Presentation

Hospitals and hospital systems represent a sizable potential market for sustainable farmers, and interest in increasing purchases of local, sustainably produced food among hospitals and hospital systems is growing.
Growing Farm to Hospital
Dec 19, 2013

"Trading" at the speed of light

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
Is it possible or necessary to regulate Automated Trading Systems (ATSs) on commodity futures markets that transact business electronically without direct human intervention at the speed of light (high-frequency Trading (HFT))?
Dec 18, 2013

WEBINAR: Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets -- A Farmer-Focused Presentation

by
Anna Claussen
Hospitals and hospital systems represent a sizable potential market for sustainable farmers, and interest in increasing purchases of local, sustainably produced food among hospitals and hospital systems is growing.
Growing Farm to Hospital
Dec 16, 2013

WEBINAR: The Promises and Perils of Proposed US-EU Trade Deal for Food and Agriculture

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Dr. Steve Suppan
Download the presentation slides: Karen Hansen-Kuhn Steve Suppan
The Promises and Perils of Proposed US-EU Trade Deal for Food and Agriculture
Dec 16, 2013

Comment on the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) draft Strategic Plan

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a 501(c)(3) organization, is pleased to submit this comment. IATP participated in the NNI stakeholder workshop in June, including two breakout sessions on Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) impacts.
Dec 13, 2013

The USDA plan for deregulating and privatizing meat and poultry inspection: A short history

Minneapolis, December 5, 2013 — In early November, the European Commission (EC) posted on its website a report evaluating Australian meat inspection. The upshot of the report will be to ban imports of Australian beef, pork and lamb because Australia allows companies producing meat products to also inspect them for safety.
Dec 12, 2013

Why is the U.S. Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right?

by
Shiney Varghese
On November 21, 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” There, all UN member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living.
Dec 12, 2013

The tree of knowledge of good and evil

by
Dale Wiehoff
It’s common to make biblical references when we want to underscore how ancient something is, but in the case of apples, we know they’ve been around for a very long time. Originating in Central Asia, hybrid varieties propagated through grafting were well established over 6,000 years ago. Today there are over 7,500 cultivars world-wide.