Document Library
January 2012
IATP letter to EPA Administrator on Dioxin Reassessment
Posted January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012
The Honorable Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Ariel Rios Building
Washington, DC 20460
Dear EPA Administrator Jackson:
Thank you for your attention to dioxin. The Dioxin Reassessment document is extremely important to the health of the American people and we...
Measuring the Economic Impact of Cooperatives in Minnesota
Posted January 12, 2012
Executive Summary
Cooperatives as a form of business have been a
part of Minnesota’s economic and cultural history. Its
1,026 cooperatives make it one of the leading states in
the country with this form of business structure. The
ability to collectively create an organizational structure
to meet community needs...
The Road to Rio +20
Posted January 11, 2012
Climate Change, Gender, Globalization, United Nations, Water
Factsheet compiled by IATP, the Alliance for Democracy, Council of Canadians, Earth Law Center, Food & Water Watch and the International Indian Treaty Council.
Minnesota Green Chemistry Conference 2012: Strategies for Growth Flyer
Posted January 10, 2012
Environment, Green chemistry, Health
Conference agenda and details for the 2012 Minnesota Green Chemistry Conference: Strategies for Growth
Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives
Posted January 9, 2012
Executive Summary
Project Purpose
The cooperative ownership model is used in a wide variety of contexts in the United States, ranging from the production and distribution of energy to delivery of home health care services for the elderly. Although cooperative businesses have been responsible for many market...
US Senate Agriculture Committee Recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Posted January 5, 2012
A summary of the recommendations from the joint US House and Senate Agriculture Committees made to the Super Committee regarding the agreement reached in how they planned to meet the $23 billion deficit reduction target. It is likely 2012 Farm Bill debate will start here. The draft is helpful...
FDA finally acts to ban unapproved use in food animals of critical human antibiotics
Posted January 5, 2012
Food and Health, Healthy Food Action, Antibiotics, Food, Health
Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) today applauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for prohibiting some off-label or “extralabel” use of cephalosporin antibiotics in food-producing animals, more than three years after that order was first issued but withdrawn. At the same time, KAW renewed its calls...
December 2011
Off the rails: Food security and the WTO
Posted December 21, 2011
Food, Food security, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Washington D.C., December 21, 2011 – At a World Social Forum event in 2006, Walden Bello warned that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was careening down a track to disaster. Negotiators urgently needed to pull back before the Round went off a cliff, the founder of Focus on the Global South...
Feeding the World?
Posted December 5, 2011
Agriculture, Food, Food Reserves, Rural Development
In 1999, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) published a groundbreaking report by Mark Muller and Richard Levins entitled Feeding the World? The Upper Mississippi River Navigation Project that examined agribusiness’ and the Mississippi River navigation industry’s claim that U.S. grain...
Soil Carbon Sequestration for Carbon Markets: The Wrong Approach to Agriculture
Posted December 5, 2011
“The Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project is not only the first project that sells soil carbon credits in Africa, it is also paving the way for a new approach to carbon accounting methodologies.”[1]
The current proposal to establish a work program on agriculture at COP 17 strongly emphasizes mitigation over...
IATP statement on Fair Trade USA leaving Fairtrade International
Posted December 1, 2011
As the founder of Fair Trade USA (originally Transfair USA), and the founder/owner of Peace Coffee, one of the largest 100-percent fair trade coffee companies in the U.S., the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) strongly disagrees with the recent decision of Fair Trade USA to resign from Fairtrade...
Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application For Animal Drugs Containing Roxarsone (Nitro-3)
Posted December 1, 2011
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) submit this Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application (ANADA) pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514. Specifically, it seeks U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514.106(b)(2)...
Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application For Animal Drugs Containing Nitarsone
Posted December 1, 2011
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) submit this Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application (ANADA) pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514. Specifically, it seeks U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514...
Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application For Animal Drugs Containing Carbarsone
Posted December 1, 2011
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) submit this Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application (ANADA) pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514. Specifically, it seeks U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514.106(b)(2) as a...
Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application For Animal Drugs Containing Arsanilic Acid
Posted December 1, 2011
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) submit this Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application (ANADA) pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514. Specifically, it seeks U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval pursuant to 21 C.F.R. § 514.106(b...
November 2011
Civil society calls on African negotiators to reject carbon markets for agriculture
Posted November 29, 2011
Climate, Climate Change, Global Governance
Durban, South Africa (November 28, 2011) – Over 100 civil society organizations from Africa and around the world sent a letter earlier this week to African negotiators attending the UN global climate talks in Durban, calling for them to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market....
At Stake in Durban: Climate Deal for the 1% or the 99%?
Posted November 29, 2011
Climate, Climate Change, Global Governance
Factsheet produced by IATP in conjunction with eight other NGOs analyzing mitigation issues in the Durban climate talks.
The world is already reeling from major humanitarian emergencies exacerbated by climate change: floods in Thailand and Pakistan, landslides from extreme rains in many Latin American countries, and...
Letter to African Agriculture and Environment Ministers
Posted November 29, 2011
Climate, Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Letter from IATP, ActionAid International, the African Biodiversity Network and the Gaia Foundation (UK) to the African Agriculture and Environment Ministers, signed by over 100 other signatories.
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, strongly object to a decision...
Bonn Nexus Conference letter with endorsements
Posted November 23, 2011
November 10, 2011
Dear Dr. Holzwarth, Dear Dr. Konukiewitz:
Last month we received your invitation for the Bonn Nexus Conference, together with about 50 other civil society representatives. Given the challenging title of the Conference, and its timing within the preparatory process for RIO+20, we gladly accepted to...
Civil Society Intervention in the Strategy Panel 2: Creating More with Less, 17 November 2011
Posted November 23, 2011
My intervention is in the context of the discussion around growing more out of less, or in other words, a green economy whose primary focus is on resource efficiency improvement.
Such a perspective can work very well in certain contexts, where social concerns are irrelevant, where inter-relationships are absent...
