Publication archives

Oct 25, 2011

Toward Rio+20: Will it create more than words?

by
Shiney Varghese
Earlier this month, not far from the site of Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Plaza in New York, a small group of people gathered; they too were engaged in a conversation about systemic change in the face of some of the challenges faced by the world today, specifically global food and water insecurity, financial crisis and climate change.
Oct 21, 2011

The politics of GMO in China

by
Jim Harkness
Recently, I wrote about China’s announcement to ban commercialization of some GMO crops for “five to ten years.” This week I went to China to speak at a conference on agricultural policy, and although GMOs were not on the conference agenda, I was able to learn a bit more about the current state of GMO politics in China.
Oct 20, 2011

Lessons from Asia on agroecology

by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Rising food prices, climate change and food riots have put agriculture high on the international agenda. Spending on agricultural development has increased, but what kind of agriculture is best suited to respond to those challenges?
Lessons from Asia on agroecology
Oct 18, 2011

Wall Street wins again in weak CFTC rule

by
Andrew Ranallo
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted 3-2 yesterday in favor of a position-limit rule that, according to a new IATP press release, is too weak to protect consumers and producers from the wild price swings that make traders rich while increasing hunger and decreasing food access
Oct 17, 2011

Whose country is it? Wall Street occupies the regulatory agencies

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
This entry originally appeared on the Triple Crisis blog.
Oct 14, 2011

Agroecology and Advocacy: Innovations in Asia

Executive Summary
Oct 14, 2011

Three paths for agriculture at global climate talks

by
Doreen Stabinsky
In the global climate talks agriculture is a peripheral issue, despite the serious impacts rising temperatures will have on crop production worldwide and significant emissions that come from the agriculture sector.
Oct 13, 2011

Hungry for justice

This commentary was originally published September 29, 2011 on Twin Cities Runoff. The author, Chelsey Perkins, is a Food and Farm Journalism Intern at IATP.