Publication archives

Ask anyone who's been working on policy-change or advocacy efforts in any arena long enough and they’ll tell you: Change takes time. Except in very rare cases, big, noticeable shifts take years—often decades—of work by countless people, working on all levels and in different ways to achieve change. On one hand, this glacial pace makes sense.

The launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations presents a new challenge to commodity and financial market reform. Those reforms, codified in the U.S.

Earlier this week, Andrew Pollack reported in the New York Times that biotech companies like Monsanto, Dupont and Dow Chemical announced through an industry association that they would be more transparent with the public about the chemicals and genetically modified

In late June, alumni from the past eight classes of the IATP Food and Community Fellows program met for the last time against the backdrop of the Snoqualmie Falls outside of Seattle. Almost every class was represented at the event heldand its alumni and to discuss the future of the network within the context of the larger food movement.

In September 2009, the Group of 20 Leaders, including President Barack Obama, announced their commitment to regulate the over-the-counter (OTC) commodity and financial derivatives market.

Welcome Debbie Sease, Sierra Club Opening Panel: What's at Stake Virginia Robnett, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (moderator) Lori Wallach, Public Citizen (TAFTA context) Natacha Cingotti, Friends of the Earth Europe (European perspectives) Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO (labor perspectives)

Environment Panel Carroll Muffett, Center for International Law (moderator) Ilana Solomon, Sierra Club (investor-state, energy & climate) William Waren, Friends of the Earth U.S. (downward harmonization)