Cheap Feed Crops Subsidize Industrial Animal Factories

The consequences of low commodity prices are serious: farmers’ bottom lines suffer, while multinational corporations win big. Based on new research from Tufts University on the implicit subsidies to industrial animal factories from below-cost feed, IATP's Dennis Olson writes on how agribusiness firms reap major gains at the expense of U.S. farmers and taxpayers.

Below Cost Feed Crops

The WTO Biotech Ruling vs the Biosafety Protocol

The WTO biotech dispute ruling raises some important questions about the UN's Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In a short analysis, IATP's Steve Suppan explores the potential impact of the WTO ruling on the precautionary principle and the Cartagena Protocol.

Codex Standards and Consumer Rights

In July 2005, the international Codex Alimentarius Commission abolished the notification procedure by which member governments voluntarily accepted Codex standards as a basis for their domestic food quality and food safety regulations. In a new article for Consumer Policy Review, IATP's Steve Suppan outlines challenges for consumer organizations who believe that Codex standards should have more functions than to serve as possible evidence in potential trade dispute rulings at the World Trade Organization.

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New Briefing Report on Agriculture and the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial

When the World Trade Organization meets next month in Hong Kong, agriculture negotiations will take center stage. Sailing Close to the Wind, new briefing report by IATP, outlines the key agriculture issues facing WTO negotiators.

U.S. Food Aid Needs Major Reform

U.S. food aid programs are plagued by inefficiency and are not addressing the long-term causes of hunger and food insecurity in the developing world, according to a new report by IATP.

DR-CAFTA Threatens U.S. Sugar Program

Increased sugar imports required by the proposed Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement will threaten the viability of the U.S. sugar program, finds a new report by IATP. The end of the U.S. sugar program would be devastating to sugar and sugar beet farmers in the U.S. and in many developing countries.

WTO Policies Undermine Human Rights

The WTO's agriculture agreement threatens human rights by promoting a trade liberalization agenda that overrides efforts to improve livelihoods, finds a new report published by IATP and 3D: Trade-Human Rights-Equitable Economy.

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