Agriculture

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO - Fact Sheet

Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. A fact sheet based on the longer report examining how agriculture trade rules at the World Trade Organization impact human rights.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO - Hindi Version

Translated into Hindi by the Indian Social Action Forum, this report discusses how international human rights law is impacted by the World Trade Organization's agriculture agreement.

Planting the Rights Seed: A Human Rights Perspective on Agriculture Trade and the WTO translated into Nepali

This has been translated into Nepali from the original English.

New Book Features Agrarian Landscapes in North America and Europe

A new book looks at farm landscapes across Europe and North America emphasizing the beauty and benefits of these regions while highlighting common challenges and solutions shared by the two continents.

United States Dumping on World Agricultural Markets

Fact sheet based on the report "WTO Agreement on Agriculture: A Decade of Dumping," a Feb. 2005 update of the 2001 paper "United States Dumping on Agricultural Markets." This fact sheet is excerpted from IATP's report Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial.  

WTO Agreement on Agriculture: A Decade of Dumping

The February 2005 update to "United States Dumping on World Agricultural Markets" documenting continued dumping of commodities by U.S. agribusiness on global markets.

Barge Leaders See No Need for Locks

Even the shipping industry is acknowleding that there will likely be no increase in barge traffic on the Mississippi River. This commentary was published in the Mississippi Monitor, January-March 2005   

Letter to the South American Ministers of Agriculture on CAFTA and U.S. Food Safety

This letter was sent in response to the U.S. demanding that the authorities in these countries recognize all USDA certified meat processing and slaughterhouse establishments as eligible to export to their countries and all U.S. meat hygiene and inspection measures as equivalent to what they already use. And this is in spite of the considerable and on-going food safety issues in the U.S.

Mad Cow and the Agony of the Cattle and Beef Markets

Can a country have "less than two (BSE) cases per million (cattle) during each of the last four consecutive 12 month periods" and still be considered a "minimal risk country" for purposes of international trade and not put public health at risk? This paper takes a hard look at the subject, including how the USDA fits into the equation.