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by
Ben Lilliston
Earlier this week, the European Parliament approved the Paris climate agreement, joining more than 60 other countries in signing the deal and paving the way for this historic global effort to enter into force. While the Paris deal is truly a major step forward, countries will have to overcome a series of hurdles created by trade agreements to reach their climate goals.
Will the teeth of trade rules swallow the Paris climate deal?
by
Shiney Varghese
On 21 September 2016 the United Nations (U.N.) newly convened High-level Panel on Water (HLPW), called for a fundamental shift in the way the world looks at water.
by
Katie Costello
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is celebrating because October is National Farm to School Month! For 30 years, IATP has been at the center of the local food movement, presenting an alternative vision to factory farming and industrial food. Nowhere is this work seen more profoundly than in our Farm to Institution Program.
Celebrating National Farm to School Month
by
Karen Hansen-Kuhn
This piece was originally published by Foreign Policy in Focus on September 27, 2016.
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IATP
The 2016 election is bizarre, to say the least. While the vast majority of reporting has focused on the horserace and he said she said aspects of the campaigns, the policy proposals put forward by the candidates will have profound and lasting impacts on the citizens they seek to govern.
by
Shiney Varghese
This piece originally published by Farming Matters on September 20, 2016 and republished under the Creative Commons license.
by
Dr. Steve Suppan
Regardless of their operation, do all farmers benefit when they sell their production to traders and processors who export crop- and livestock-derived products? According to a recent interview with Ambassador Darci Vetter, the chief U.S.
by
Tara Ritter
This blog overviews day 1 of the 2016 Rural Climate Dialogues State Convening.
Raising Rural Voices on Climate Change