Agriculture

IATP has been advocating for fair and sustainable agriculture and food systems for more than 35 years. Learn more about our agriculture work on our Agriculture & Food Systems page.

Seeing the forest through the corn

Forest land home to rare bird species isn't the usual image that comes to mind when we think of Iowa. But the Yellow River Forest area in northeast Iowa totals 135,000 acres of unfragmented forest.

Europe and U.S. bear special responsibility for food crisis, new report finds

Policies enacted by the United States and the European Union, and aggressively pushed through global institutions during the last several decades, laid the ground for the ongoing food crisis.

Global Food Responsibility: The European Union and United States Must Chart a New Path

The U.S. and the European Union have a particular responsibility to address the global food crisis. This report outlines how they could play a constructive role.

Food, Agriculture and Doha

An article as part of the larger publication Moving Forward on Global Trade.

Land grabs

During the past year, mainstream media coverage of major global crises—food, water, climate and economic—has focused primarily on the latter.

A New Framework for Food and Agriculture?

IATP's Alexandra Spieldoch blogs from the 17th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meeting in New York.

Assessing the Full Cost of CAFOs

What do the worldwide epidemics of the new swine flu and MRSA have in common? Both are connected to swine. And for years public health leaders have been calling for changes to animal agriculture that could help prevent them.

The Plow

Devin Foote is a 24-year-old beginning farmer at Common Ground Farm in Beacon, New York. Throughout the growing season, Devin will be chronicling his experiences as a young farmer growing for a local food system. May 5, 2009

First 100 Days

Last week, President Obama completed his first 100 days.

The Mystique of Cheap Food

With increasing public concern and awareness about climate change, food safety, health, immigration, and even swine flu, industrial agriculture’s grip on the American food and agriculture system is starting to loosen. Nowhere was this more evident than at the St.

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