Publication archives

Mar 18, 2009

Regulating Commodities Speculation: Normative and Fiscal Means

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
This paper was presented at the UNCTAD Public Symposium, The Way Forward, held in Geneva, May 18 to 19, 2009.
Mar 18, 2009

Saving Antibiotics

You may have read New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's frightening story about small-town doctor Tom Anderson and his subsequent column on the connection between confined, industrial hog farming and the presence of methicill
Mar 17, 2009

Rep. Slaughter Reintroduces Bill to Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

WASHINGTON -- Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) -- a national coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane, and other advocacy groups with more than ten million supporters -- today welcomed the reintroduction of a bill that would help combat the antibiotic resistance crisis by targeting the overuse of antibiotics important to human medicine in animal agriculture.
Mar 17, 2009

Better Hospital Food

Today, the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) announced that it was committing to the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge. HCMC is the first public teaching hospital in the country to take the pledge.
Mar 16, 2009

KAW testimony to the California Senate Committee on Food And Agriculture

KAW testimony to the California Senate Committee on Food And Agriculture concerning legislation on antibiotics.  
Mar 16, 2009

Water at the Center

On Sunday, the New York Times Alexei Barrioneuvo wrote about the disastrous water wars in Chile. The article highlighted the dangers of privatizing something that should remain in the public commons, but also described the direct link between water policy and agriculture.
Mar 15, 2009

Integrated Solutions to the Water, Agriculture and Climate Crises

by
Shiney Varghese
This report outlines the connections between the water, agriculture and climate crises and the role industrial agriculture has played in contributing to the problem. Because these three areas are so inter-connected they can no longer be handled in isolation from each other and a comprehensive approach is now needed.
Mar 14, 2009

The Canadian and Mexican WTO Challenges to U.S. Country of Origin Labeling

A short backgrounder on U.S. Country of Origin labeling and potential challenges by Canada and Mexico at the WTO.