Publication archives

Nov 14, 2012

Chiko the Cat says support IATP to the max

by
Jim Harkness
Dear Friends, Give to the Max Day in Minnesota is a special day to support your favorite Minnesota nonprofits.
Nov 13, 2012

Food, toxics and ADHD: Old fears, ever stronger science

A Harvard study just published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine journal, associates a mother's low level exposure to mercury while pregnant with greater risk of her child later developing ADHD-related behavior.
Nov 8, 2012

Money, politics and food

by
Ben Lilliston
It didn’t make headlines, but Tuesday was the start of an important movement to reform our food and agriculture system by restoring our democracy.
Nov 6, 2012

Government's seat at the dinner table

by
Mark Muller
This piece is an introduction to a new collection of commentaries by the IATP Food and Community Fellows, originally published on www.foodandcommunityfellows.org.
Nov 2, 2012

An open letter to G-20 finance ministers: The world needs leadership on finance reform

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Government of the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, European Commission Ikko Nataksuka, Minister of State for Financial Services, Government of Japan
Oct 30, 2012

No Time to Lose: 147 Studies Supporting Public Health Action to Reduce Antibiotic Overuse in Food Animals

Hundreds of studies to date, and ever-strengthening science, tie the spreading epidemic of resistant infections in humans to routine antibiotic use in food animals. This is a select summary of that science across several critical strands of evidence.
Oct 26, 2012

The CFS comes of age

by
Sophia Murphy
I came away from the 39th session of UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) last Saturday tired but hopeful. In a world where many are skeptical of global institutions' ability to solve the world’s most challenging problems—not least of which, climate change—the CFS offers a new approach to global governance, and is getting results.
Oct 25, 2012

A global step forward on climate and agriculture

by
Shefali Sharma
Last week in Rome, the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security (CFS) agreed on key principles on how governments must address the massive food security challenge that climate change brings.