Agriculture

Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007

Executive summary

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Four: Food and Power

Food is about more than just the calories we need to survive. The expansion of corporate-controlled industrial agriculture has meant the loss of traditional knowledge, diverse genetic resources, and communities’ power to control their own food systems. 

One step forward, two steps back for conservation

IRA freeze and DOGE cuts limit farmer access to popular conservation programs. The on-farm conservation programs EQIP and CSP provide vital support for farmers to increase resilience and improve environmental outcomes on their farms. But following federal cuts to USDA funding and staffing, program acceptance rates dropped off steeply in fiscal year 2025. Learn more in our latest report.

[WATCH] Shaping the Future of Food: Agroecology Uprooted

What is agroecology, and why is it central to IATP's vision for a just, sustainable future of food?

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Three: Life on Earth

Food systems and biodiversity are deeply intertwined. Agroecology is grounded in biodiversity, taking advantage of ecological processes and relationships to improve farm resilience and productivity. But the dominant industrial agriculture system works against biodiversity in ways that are harming human health, driving mass extinction, and threatening all of life on earth.

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Two: Growing Resilience

Around the world, farmers adopting agroecological practices are rebuilding their soil, growing an abundance of food, and decreasing their reliance on external inputs. As war and political turmoil disrupt fertilizer and fuel supplies globally, agroecology is a way to build resilience in a destabilized world. 

This status quo Farm Bill does not meet the moment we’re in

As its written, the House Farm Bill set to go to vote this week helps broken programs limp along while ignoring glaring issues facing farmers today. On issue after issue — crop insurance, unfair corporate practices, conservation funding, climate resilience — this Farm Bill falls short.

Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure

As the war in Iran squeezes fertilizer and fuel supplies, there is renewed attention on the vulnerability of global food systems. But the roots of this current crisis go much deeper.

The (not so) hidden costs of increasing USDA crop insurance subsidies

As USDA is cutting programs that support sustainability and market access for smaller farmers, the Department has made a series of changes to crop insurance subsidies mostly benefiting large commodity farms, which are funneling billions of dollars directly to insurers.

Farming in the Dark: Unreliable USDA data jeopardizes a sustainable farming transition

As farmers struggle to adjust to a changing climate that has led to an increased frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events, incomplete or inaccurate public data has become a growing concern, and federal programs designed to provide farmers with information have been pared back.