Reports

Values in Conflict: How Trade and Finance Rules Curtail Our Rights

A chart showing how trade and finance rules conflict with the environment, human rights, public heallth, and food and agriculture.

A Framework for Rebalancing Global Norms

This paper analyzes the role of global trade and financial institutions in undermining human rights, and identifies strategies for global organizing in support of a new system.

Promoting Human Rights and the Environment in Trade and Finance Rules

This paper identifies successful strategies by civil society groups to challenge unfair multilateral rules.

Food Stamps, Food Security and Public Health: Lessons from Minnesota

The Food Stamp Program is a good case study to examine why, despite food assistance and nutrition programs, people continue to struggle with adequate and nutritious food supplies.

Harvesting Fuel: Cutting Costs and Reducing Forest fire Hazards Through Biomass Harvest

This study was designed to provide information on two sets of challenges to the development of biomass markets in and around the Superior National Forest: 1) economic and operational issues faced by loggers; and 2) environmental constraints of concern to and managers, scientists and policymakers involved in developing and refining biomass harvest practices.

U.S. China Agreement on Food Safety: Terms and Enforcement Capacity

A review of the U.S. China food safety agreement summarizing the views of U.S. Congressional investigators who doubted that the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) could effectively implement and enforce the hundreds of pages of new food safety rules.

Import Food Safety in the Twilight of the Bush Administration

In 2007, 30 million pounds of ground beef was pulled off the U.S. market in a series of twenty recalls because of contamination concerns. The recalls highlight serious concerns in our deregulated food safety system. Over the last decade we've reduced the number of food safety inspectors and instead rely more on the food industry to regulate itself.

Biofuel and Global Biodiversity

A Time of High Prices: An Opportunity for the Rural Poor?

This new paper by IATP finds that governments have been limited in their ability to help farmers take advantage of higher prices – due to free trade economics pushed by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization.

Turning High Prices Into an Opportunity: What is Needed

The global food crisis is an opportunity for the international community to provide greater support for agriculture in countries that are struggling with hunger.