Climate Change

Climate change and agriculture are tied directly to social equity and development. Agriculture is both a cause and solution to global warming. Climate change creates new challenges to food production and the people who produce it.

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Learning from the ILUC debate

What is indirect land use change (ILUC) and what can ethanol producers and environmentalists stand to learn?

Feeding the world, or not

U.S. grain exports are up, so too is hunger.

Documents

Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007
Published January 18, 2012
Civil society calls on African negotiators to reject carbon markets for agriculture
Published November 29, 2011
At Stake in Durban: Climate Deal for the 1% or the 99%?
Published November 29, 2011
Civil Society Intervention in the Plenary Panel 2: Understanding the Nexus, 16 November 2011
Published November 23, 2011
Crop insurance expansion without climate adaptation poses risks for farmers and taxpayers, new report ﬁnds
Published November 16, 2011
A Risky Proposition
A new report finds that an expansion of crop insurance in the Farm Bill without... Published November 15, 2011
Weak CFTC position-limit rule ineffective, unsound says IATP
Published October 18, 2011
Comment in response to the Joint Public Roundtable on International Issues Relating to the Implementation of Title VII of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Published October 4, 2011
Elusive Promises of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project
The World Bank’s African climate project offers little to farmers, built on... Published September 9, 2011
Comment on HLPE Climate and Food Security Study
Published July 22, 2011

Blog posts

Building markets for Ag in the Middle

Since 2009, IATP has partnered with Compass Group USA to expand their local and regional produce purchasing.

Published January 30, 2012
Lethal symmetry: the Durban climate outcome

The latest "agreement" and its multitiered failure to alter the course on climate change.

Published December 15, 2011
The “deal” in Durban: What happened on agriculture at the climate talks?

What happened on agriculture at the climate talks?

Published December 13, 2011
IATP at Durban

Published December 9, 2011
Wearing blinders: The UNFCCC and agriculture's adaptation challenge

Published December 7, 2011
The Durban pantomime

Published December 7, 2011
Stakes are high for agriculture at climate talks

Published December 5, 2011
The water, energy and food nexus

Published December 2, 2011
Agriculture and the Green Climate Fund: Two U.S. bargaining chips at the climate talks

IATP's Steve Suppan reports from the COP17 climate talks in Durban, South Africa.

Published December 1, 2011
Civil society in Durban: "Reject carbon markets for agriculture"

IATP, along with over 100 other civil society organizations, calls on African negotiators to reject carbon markets in Durban.

Published November 29, 2011
Workshop in Kenya on the politics of agriculture in the climate talks

Published November 16, 2011
Need versus greed at Rio+20

Published November 10, 2011
A hell of a way to write a Farm Bill

Published October 27, 2011
Toward Rio+20: Will it create more than words?

Published October 25, 2011
Wall Street wins again in weak CFTC rule

Weak CFTC rule allows for distortion of commodity markets at the hands of financial speculators.

Published October 18, 2011
Whose country is it? Wall Street occupies the regulatory agencies

Wall Street occupies the regulatory agencies as U.S. taxpayers pay dearly for an unregulated market.

Published October 17, 2011
Three paths for agriculture at global climate talks

Published October 13, 2011
Soil carbon mirage debated in Panama

Published October 10, 2011
What does the occupation of Wall Street have to do with agriculture?

How does the occupation of Wall Street relate to agriculture and food?

Published September 30, 2011
Moving the planet towards sustainability: Two smart investment projects

Published September 23, 2011
How a better farm policy could save money and stabilize prices

Published September 16, 2011
Big changes for school food

Published September 6, 2011
Small insights about the big picture in climate negotiations

Published June 28, 2011
Agriculture to feature as a key issue on the Road to Durban: opens up critical debates

Published June 27, 2011
On dead zones, flooding and money

Published June 21, 2011
Agriculture in the spotlight at Bonn climate talks

Published June 16, 2011
More evidence on speculators and food prices

Published June 9, 2011
Lessons for Africa's carbon exchange

Published April 22, 2011
Five reasons carbon markets won't work for agriculture

Published April 12, 2011
World Water Day statement from the Water Justice Movement, March 22, 2011

Published March 23, 2011
The Brazil connection: agriculture, biofuels and land use

Published March 16, 2011
Commodity market reform: Wall street vs. the regulators

Published February 28, 2011
Reflections on right to water

Published February 24, 2011
Casino pushes away gamblers: banks warn regulators

Published February 11, 2011
A festival for social justice: reporting from the World Social Forum

Published February 10, 2011
Women at the center of climate-friendly approaches to agriculture and water

Published February 9, 2011
New US interagency study on carbon markets

Published January 21, 2011
The climate deal that failed us

Published December 12, 2010
Empty global climate deal leaves agriculture behind

Published December 11, 2010
Water warriors testify in Cancún

Published December 10, 2010
Bolivia's Morales calls out capitalism on climate crisis

Published December 10, 2010
"Perfectly just is not going to happen here"

Published December 9, 2010
Elegant in Cancún

Published December 9, 2010
From Cancún to Minnesota: The need for environmental justice

Published December 9, 2010
US in the hot seat on REDD+

Published December 9, 2010
Bad process in climate talks, repeat

Published December 8, 2010
Measuring the climate: the whether channel

Published December 8, 2010
Marching in Cancún

Published December 8, 2010
UN climate talks keep agriculture on the wrong track

Published December 6, 2010
Agriculture in the climate talks - new paper

Published December 2, 2010

Climate Change

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Climate change and agriculture are tied directly to social equity and development. Agriculture is both a cause and solution to global warming. Climate change creates new challenges to food production and the people who produce it.

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