Agriculture

Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007

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Open letter on the importance of addressing methane from industrially farmed animals to help slow global warming and build farm resilience

The following open letter was delivered on June 30, 2026 to European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen, in addition to Executive Vice-President, Teresa Ribera; Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth, Wopke Hoekstra; DG CLIMA Director General, Kurt Vandenberghe; DG AGRI Director General, Elisabeth Werner

IATP Responds to the Senate Farm Bill

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has released the following statement from Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities, in response to the Senate Farm Bill text released today:

The Bank Takes the Lead?

Making sense of the World Bank Group’s role supporting livestock projects in the Green Revolution in Africa, with a focus on East and Southern Africa Our latest report examines the rise in WBG financing for African agriculture since 2021, and the importance of centering farmers and agroecology in any efforts to transform African agriculture.

Agroecology Uprooted Episode Five: System Change

How do we transform food systems to make agroecological transitions possible on a large scale? In the final episode of Agroecology Uprooted, hear from Sophia Murphy, Ernesto Mendez, and Raj Patel on some of the policy changes that help agroecology thrive, and what it takes to make them happen. 

EU can build on existing agriculture emissions targets to unlock the sector’s climate potential

Note: This article was updated on June 26, 2026 (original publication: June 8, 2026) to reflect changes in the status of Estonia’s climate law. A warming planet and more frequent extreme weather events will change how food is produced in the European Union (EU) in 2040 and beyond. But what about the sector’s contribution to fighting the climate crisis?

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.