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Feb 5, 2026

USDA’s new Regenerative Agriculture Initiative: A step forward or greenwashing?

Michael Happ

In late 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a Regenerative Agriculture Pilot Program, also known as the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative (RAI).

Kale and other vegetables on diverse healthy farm

Feb 3, 2026

IATP and IPS comment on the intersection of climate change, food systems, and human rights

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

The challenges to our climate and food systems intersect in important ways, not only because of the impacts of erratic weather on food production or the emissions generated by agricultural production, but also because of the ways corporate power both exacerbates those problems and undermines the solutions. These are not just technical issues but fundamentally political choices. 

Jan 27, 2026

IATP Europe comments on the revision of biogas-related methodologies in the EU Renewable Energy Directive

Sophie Scherger

IATP Europe submitted the following comments on January 26, 2026, to the European Commission regarding the revision of Annex V and VI of the Renewable Energy Directive (short: RED, Directive (EU) 2018/2001) regarding proposed changes related to the calculation of the climate benefits of manure-based biogas and biomethane.

Jan 22, 2026

Learning from Germany’s decades of public biogas support

Sophie Scherger

While biogas — energy produced mostly from crops or animal manure — has long been promoted as part of the European Union’s (EU) energy transition, it now receives renewed attention as a tool to address agriculture’s methane emissions. 

Large green domes at German biogas plant

Jan 21, 2026

IATP joins ICE OUT Minnesota statewide strike

Sophia Murphy

IATP is joining hundreds of businesses, faith communities, labor unions, schools, and nonprofits across Minnesota on Friday, January 23 in closing our office doors and putting away our keyboards for ICE OUT Minnesota: A Day of Truth and Freedom. 

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