Farm to School Month Highlights Benefits to Farmers, Kids, and Communities

Farmers in Minnesota, and across the country, are facing another year of global prices so low they don’t cover the cost of production. Increasingly, Minnesota farmers are turning to local markets and supply chains that offer more stable income, boost the local economy, and provide healthier food to our communities.

IATP’s Shiney Varghese will add a voice from Minnesota to the United Nations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09/22/2017 Contact: Josh Wise, 952-818-5474, [email protected]

Agroecological Transition in Mexico

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Mexican civil society platform on the start of the renegotiation of NAFTA

  This is the IATP's translation of the original Spanish document. You can find the print copy here.  

NAFTA Renegotiation: What's at stake for food, farmers and the land?

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NAFTA: The Facts. An International Bill of Rights for Transnational Corporations

Don't Believe the Carbon Market Hype

Introduction The effects of climate change are increasingly apparent—2016 was recorded as the hottest year ever, and droughts, floods, wildfires and other extreme weather events are rising globally. The implications of these changes are tremendous; yet, the United States does not currently have a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Oral tesimony on NAFTA re-negotiation at USITC on June 27, 2017

Oral testimony by Juliette Majot, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, on the proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Presented to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington D.C., June 27, 2017.

Food and farm groups call for new NAFTA to address dumping and support farmers in all countries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2017 Contact: Josh Wise, 952-818-5474, [email protected]; Karen Hansen-Kuhn, 202-413-9533, [email protected]  

Counting the Costs of Agricultural Dumping

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