For key Trump Administration nominees that oversee government agencies that intersect with farmers, rural communities and our food system, IATP will be proposing three key questions for the Senate to ...

Our Community Food Systems program works at the intersection of policy and practice in Minnesota. IATP’s Community Food Systems program strives to build vibrant community-based food systems that give ...

The following comments were submitted by IATP Dec. 23, 2024 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. View a PDF of the full comments here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Civil society groups in the U.S., Mexico and Canada criticized a decision today announced by a dispute panel set up under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The panel ruled ...

An individual report of the happenings at the WTO Ministerial in Doha, Qatar.

Kraft Foods Inc.'s Louis Rich meat business recalled about 11,800 pounds of turkey ham because some packages sold in the U.S. and abroad may be contaminated with listeria, bacteria that can make ...

The following comments were submitted on Dec. 12, 2024 to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. MPCA’s guiding principles on PFAS pollution are laudable ones, and they are principles that we agree ...

This paper explores the relationship between MEAs and the WTO and proposes both legal and practical approaches to resolving tensions and to enhancing synergies in order to maximise their joint ...

In the past, engineers and biologists commonly removed large woody debris (LWD)-logs larger than 18" in diameter and longer than 12 feet-from streams throughout the West to improve fish passage and ...

Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition - and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs. In November 2004, Guatemala's Congress repealed ...

The federal government and the commercial farming industry are beginning to take action to protect the effectiveness of antibiotics in people by restricting their use in farm animals. At the end of ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - The Bush administration clashed with doctors on Wednesday over the merits of a proposal to charge higher co-payments to Medicaid recipients, with doctors warning that the fees ...