Fact Sheets

Speculating on Carbon Fact Sheet

This fact sheet is a summary of "Speculating on Carbon: The Next Toxic Asset" which was one of a series of issue briefing papers IATP produced for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen. A Spanish translation is also included below.  

The Minneapolis Mini Farmers Market Project

While some Minneapolis neighborhoods enjoy a bountiful supply of healthy foods, others do not. IATP’s Minneapolis Mini Farmers Market project is helping to address this challenge by bringing fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods that lack healthy food options. Farmers markets

NAFTA: Fueling Market Concentration in Agriculture

This fact sheet includes testimonies from farm group representatives in the U.S., Canada and Mexico on the role of the North American Free Trade Agreement in further concentrating agriculture markets.

Impact of Growth Promoter Only Ban

KAW analysis of the impact of a growth promoter only ban in the United States which are classified as critically important classes under FDA Guidance #152.  

Speculating on Carbon: The Next Toxic Asset

Global climate change negotiations currently treat greenhouse gas emissions as a tradable commodity. Carbon trading on poorly regulated commodity futures markets has disrupted efforts to address climate change. The planned expansion of carbon trading could also adversely affect food security.

Antibiotics, Animal Agriculture and MRSA: A New Threat

Widespread use of antibiotics leads to the development and spread of more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, like MRSA. When used, antibiotics kill off susceptible bacteria leaving resistant ones to multiply and spread; greater use of antibiotics—wherever that occurs—translates into greater numbers and different varieties of drug-resistant bacteria.

LDC Ministerial declaration on Doha

LDC ministerial declaration on Doha

Smart Guide Hormones in the Food System

Hormones are routinely used in meat and dairy production as growth promoters, given to dairy cows to increase milk production, hormone -active pesticides are sprayed on crops, are used in plastic food packaging and can be found in the industrial chemicals and byproducts, used in industrial processes, which also make their way into the food chain.

A Better Future for Food and Energy: Reforming Commodity Futures Markets

This fact sheet argues for better regulation of commodity markets.

KAW antibiotics food safety fact sheet

KAW's fact sheet on antibiotic resistant foodbourne pathogens and the relationship to intensifying the food safety crisis.