Press Release

New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights, Protect Environment

Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. A new system is badly needed.

New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights, Protect Environment

House Passes Animal Drug Bill after Drug Industry Blocks Efforts to Preserve Effectiveness of Antibiotics

KAW press release on the U.S. House of Representatives passing the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) with weak public health provisions requiring the collection of sales data on antibiotics. The animal drug industry and a number of livestock groups were successful in blocking stronger public health provisions.

Trade Talks Collapse, New Direction Needed

Today, trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva broke down. It has now been seven years since the Doha Round of negotiations began at the WTO. People want global agreements to solve food insecurity, to get them out of poverty and to avoid the devastating effects of climate change. If trade can help these goals, it should be used.

Trade Talks Collapse, New Direction Needed

Today, trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization in Geneva broke down. It has now been seven years since the Doha Round of negotiations began at the WTO.

WTO Doha Negotiations Threaten to Encourage Inefficient Food Aid Delivery

Revised rules on food aid in the latest negotiating text at the World Trade Organization fail to reduce adequately the scope for the sale of food aid and encourage a highly wasteful, trade distorting system, according to a letter sent to trade ministers today from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Oxfam International.

Keep Antibiotics Working Praises Amendment Establishing An Antimicrobial Data Collection Program

 KAW press release welcoming the inclusion of data collection provisions in H.R. 6432, the Animal Drug User Fee Act of 2008 (ADUFA), which was passed today out of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Keep Antibiotics Working Statement on New FDA Ban of Extralabel Use of Cephalosporins

KAW statement on the FDA's ban on extralabel uses of both 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs used in food animals.  

Test Biomass Harvests Yield Important Lessons

A series of test forest biomass harvests from the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota indicate that such harvests could reduce the cost of fire prevention management while providing work for loggers and fuel for renewable energy facilities.

KAW Welcomes New USDA Antibiotic Research Program

 KAW press release announcing support for key provisions embedded in the 2008 Farm Bill that will establish for the first time a research program focused on the development and control of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in an agricultural context.  