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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.

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  • 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
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  • 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

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