A New Agricultural Policy for the United States

By Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy, and Loni Kemp with the Minnesota Project.  This report was produced for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainability on November 2002.

Past and Future Grain Traffic on the Missouri River

An examination of grain traffic patters on the Missouri River, including Army Corps of Engineers' forecasts versus reality.

Marketing Sustainable Agriculture - Case Studies and Analysis from Europe

Innovative marketing strategies are crucial to the success of sustainable and organic agriculture. Gaining insights from successful strategies is the purpose of the publication Marketing Sustainable Agriculture: Case Studies and Analysis from Europe.

Trade, Ag, and Climate Change

This assessment exposes the ways that current agricultural trade policies contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions by substantially increasing the energy intensity of food production, processing, packaging and distribution systems.

Third Crop Opportunities in the Blue Earth River Basin

Proceedings of the conference held in Fairmont, Minnesota on February 7 and 23.

United States Dumping on World Agricultural Markets

The first in a series of publications from IATP that examine the issues facing the WTO at the Cancun Ministerial. The report looks at the cost of production of corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat and rice, and compares the cost to the price at which these commodities are sold on international markets.

Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health

The first study to examine brand-name poultry products prominent in grocery stores for the presence of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including resistance to important antibiotics relied upon to treat human infections like Ciprofloxacin (Cipro), Synercid, and Tetracycline. This report is a joint effort by the Sierra Club and IATP.  

Trade, Agriculture and Climate Change

As the world's nations consider strategies to tackle climate change, little attention has been given to the intersection of energy intensive industrial agriculture and global distribution systems combined with trade agreements.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

Growing water uses in the basin, combined with climate change, population growth, land use and other changes, will lead to a combination of decreasing water availability and placing an ever increasing value on fresh water. This report outlines a research agenda for agriculture, trade and water quantity management in the Great Lakes-St.

Impacts of Agriculture on Water Quantity in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin

A research agenda for assessing water quantity issues for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin system