November 2011
Posted November 16, 2011
Climate, Climate Change, Farm Bill
MINNEAPOLIS – Recent Farm Bill proposals to expand crop insurance for U.S. farmers have failed to acknowledge threats to agriculture from climate change, finds a new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
In their report, “A Risky Proposition: Crop Insurance in the Face of...
Posted November 15, 2011
Agriculture, Climate Change, Farm Bill
In the last year, the U.S. has experienced some of the most severe floods and droughts in recent history. According to climate scientists, more droughts, more floods and more heat waves are what the future holds. 1 Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that in the run-up to the 2012 Farm Bill, most farm lobby...
Posted November 10, 2011
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Food security, Sustainable Agriculture, Water
Submitted by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, USA and endorsed by over forty Indian national and regional farmers organizations and other civil society organizations.
Download the PDF to read the entire submission.
Endorsed by:
AHIMSA, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
Alliance for Democratizing Agricultural...
Posted November 10, 2011
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Food security, Sustainable Agriculture, Water
Twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit, the planet is in a deeper environmental, energy and financial crisis. The period has also seen increasing political and social crisis in many regions. Several leaders have recognized that “business as usual is not an option.” We could not agree more, and we have...
Posted November 10, 2011
Agriculture, Common Agriculture Policy (CAP)
For whom is this course?
The course is in the first place developed for any first year student registered at an academic institution in Europe in the field of (agricultural) economics, (rural) sociology, agronomy, European Studies and political science.
But also if you are an academic teacher, policy maker or...
Posted November 9, 2011
Agriculture, Common Agriculture Policy (CAP)
Collective actions of farmers and CAP payments
Enhancing efficiency and effectiveness
in the delivery of environmental public goods
Farmers’ delivery of public goods is one of the main justifications for the continuation of the CAP - payments towards 2020.
Under the current CAP arrangements...
Posted November 4, 2011
Agriculture, Markets, Globalization
Rome, October 2011 – Multilateralism is in crisis. It is perhaps most evident in the painful and truly frightening failure of governments to come to grips with the implications of climate change. But it was also evident on a much less well-publicized stage in mid-October in Rome, where governments were gathered...
Posted November 2, 2011
Agriculture, Markets, Globalization
CFS 37
October 2011
Food Price Volatility
Recommendations from Civil Society
CSOs request the CFS:
AGRICULTURAL AND PRICE POLICIES To support the development of comprehensive short and long-term national and regional food security strategies...
October 2011
Posted October 25, 2011
Markets, Commodities, Market speculation
Steve Suppan's powerpoint slides from the October 25th 2011 webinar "Commodity price volatility: U.S. and EU regulatory battles".
Posted October 25, 2011
Markets, Commodities, Market speculation
Markus Henn's powerpoint slides from the October 25th 2011 webinar "Commodity price volatility: U.S. and EU regulatory battles".
Posted October 20, 2011
Agriculture, Food Reserves, Food security
Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 will be an enormous challenge. In many circles when people talk about feeding the world in 2050, the focus is almost exclusively on increasing food production. How can we do what we’re already doing better? What technologies can we produce to get more yield, or calories, out of...
Posted October 18, 2011
Markets, Commodities, Market speculation
Today’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) 3-2 vote to pass a weak position-limit rule will not suffice to prevent excessive speculation that has roiled commodity prices since at least 2006, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
A position-limit rule puts a ceiling on...
Posted October 14, 2011
Agriculture, Globalization
Executive Summary
Rising food prices, increasing climate instability and food riots have sparked profound political changes around the world and put agriculture high on the international agenda. What kind of agriculture is best suited to respond to those challenges, however, is the subject of profound disagreement....
Posted October 13, 2011
Justice, Labor
This commentary was originally published September 29, 2011 on Twin Cities Runoff. The author, Chelsey Perkins, is a Food and Farm Journalism Intern at IATP.
On a brisk June day on a sidewalk in southeast Minneapolis, Mario Colloly Torres ate a chunk of bread, his first bite of food in 12 days. His body felt tired....
Posted October 6, 2011
Local Food, Food and Health, Food, Health
Powerpoint slides for the October 6th webinar School Food Revolution? The state of the school lunch tray and efforts to improve kids’ health
Posted October 5, 2011
Bioeconomy
PowerPoint presentation for IATP's Indirect Land Use Conference, September 14, 2011.
Posted October 5, 2011
Bioeconomy
PowerPoint presentation from IATP's Indirect Land Use Conference, September 14, 2011.
Posted October 4, 2011
Bioeconomy
PowerPoint presentation from IATP's Indirect Land Use Conference, September 14, 2011.
Posted October 4, 2011
Bioeconomy
PowerPoint presentation at IATP Indirect Land Use Conference, September 14, 2011.
