Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities

Hospitals around the country are starting to follow their own advice to patients about the importance of a beneficial diet by offering fresh, healthy food at their facilities.

Sweet or Sour? The U.S. Sugar Program and the Threats Posed by the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Program

The U.S. sugar program is the only major U.S.commodity program that guarantees fair prices to farmers, operates at no cost to tax payers and prevents export dumping at below the cost of production. In other words, it balances supply and demand.

Hard Red Spring Wheat at a Genetic Crossroad

Traces the battle over the approval of genetically engineered wheat in the United States.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO translated into Nepali

This has been translated into Nepali from the original English.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO - Hindi Version

Translated into Hindi by the Indian Social Action Forum, this report discusses how international human rights law is impacted by the World Trade Organization's agriculture agreement.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO

The Treaty Database

The Treaty Database is comprehensive overview of the U.S. history of joining or ignoring multilateral treaties. It also contains a summary of US government treaty actions broken down by presidential administration dating back to 1893. Besides the Treaty Database there are additional links to the Treaty Database Factsheet, press release and research data for the report.

WTO Agreement on Agriculture: A Decade of Dumping

The February 2005 update to "United States Dumping on World Agricultural Markets" documenting continued dumping of commodities by U.S. agribusiness on global markets.

Mad Cow and the Agony of the Cattle and Beef Markets

Can a country have "less than two (BSE) cases per million (cattle) during each of the last four consecutive 12 month periods" and still be considered a "minimal risk country" for purposes of international trade and not put public health at risk? This paper takes a hard look at the subject, including how the USDA fits into the equation.  

Codex Briefing Paper

This paper by IATP's Dr. Steve Suppan was written for Consumer International's Decision Making in the Global Market program.