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IATP has long been a leader in making sure global agreements protect the rights of farmers around the world. We are active at the United Nations and World Trade Organization and through various bilateral and multilateral agreements to ensure that the rights of farmers to receive a fair price, engage in conservation and sustainable practices, and even just to stay on their land are upheld and respected. We also monitor trade agreements to make sure food safety, environmental safeguards and the rights of farm workers are protected. Visit our Trade & Governance page to learn more.

Uprooted Episode 28: Your right to know - Labeling and NAFTA 2.0

This week we're talking about labeling, and the attempt to ban it, in trade agreements. Josh talks with Sharon Treat about why multinational corporations seek to undermine public health protections through the trade negotiating process, what the history of challenging food labeling has been, and what the heck is going on with NAFTA renegotiation these days. 

China-U.S. tariff spat will hurt farmers and our flawed food system

If proposed Chinese tariffs go into effect, it will be painful for U.S. farmers. It's time to ask some hard questions about the system supported by past policy that put our farm economy and the men and women who grow our food in such a vulnerable position.

NAFTA: New protections for "Too Big to Fail" Banks

The revision of NAFTA would provide Wall Street with new means to attack Dodd-Frank, not only via their allies in Congress, but by filing lawsuits from their subsidiaries in Canada and Mexico.

With labeling plan leaked, what else lurks in Trump's NAFTA?

After a horrifying, junk food labeling provision was leaked from NAFTA renegotiations, we must demand transparency to know what else is being discussed behind closed doors.

Denying Trump’s request for Fast Track extension would be a win for democracy

The following first appeared in The Hill on March 21, 2018, under the title: How Congress Can Shut Down Trump's Latest Power Grab

Legalizing nanomaterials in EU food and feed products

An update to EFSA's 2011 Guidance synthesizes a broad array of scientific literature, but problematically suggests nanomaterials won't be subject to stringent enough mandatory rules.

Got Too Much Steel? Too Much Milk?

President Trump's tariffs are a partial and short-term solution to a real problem. The larger issue is dumping goods below cost-of-production in other countries.

Uprooted, Episode 25: Tariffs and Multilateralism

The Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum have caused a lot of chatter and speculation. But they exist in a very complicated and interconnected system. Today, Josh talks about the tariffs, the WTO, and the rules based multilateral trading system with IATP Adviser, Sophia Murphy, Director of Trade and Global Governance, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, and IATP Executive Director, Juliette Majot.

Uprooted, Episode 24: Trade and Migration

Josh talks with Cristina Garcia, Member Mobilization Manager at Alianza Americas about the links between trade and migration. They are talking about how NAFTA and other trade policies have forced people to become economic migrants, why they choose to cross borders what trade policy would look like that respected the mobility of labor. 

Uprooted Episode 18: NAFTA New Year Update

It's been five months since talks began on the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.

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