Agreement on Agriculture Re-Imagined Background Paper

 

Battling for Farmers' Seed Systems: UPOV 91 and Trade Agreements

This memo is an attempt to draw attention to the international policy-level challenges impacting Farmers’ Seed Systems broadly, but with a focus on communities in the Global South, and on how the U.S. and its seeds companies use free-trade agreements to undermine the policy space available for farmers to save, use, exchange, and sell farm-saved seeds.

Kenya Livestock Sector: Value Chain Analysis, Trade Impacts & Recent Trends

This report provides a value chain analysis of Kenya’s livestock sector with a focus on beef, pork and poultry. It examines the impact of trade liberalization on Kenya’s domestic livestock and meat producers and within the East African Community (EAC) market.

Joint Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur (Right to Food) on Corporate Concentration in global food systems

The following comments were submitted on June 12, 2025 in response to the Call for Input from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the forthcoming thematic report to the UN General Assembly: Concentration of corporate power in global food systems and its implications for the realization of the right to food.

Let's Keep the Door Open

After years of underfunding and oversubscription, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding in fiscal year 2024 (FY24) helped thousands more farmers enroll in two federal conservation cost share programs: the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP).

Brazilian perspectives on the EUDR, the Cerrado, and respect for family farmers, Indigenous people, and community rights

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples and local communities living in and adjacent to forests and the importance of including the Cerrado biome in the regulation, in accordance with demands from Brazilian civil society organizations.

Aligning deforestation-free supply chain initiatives

This article outlines some key elements of the EUDR and compares it with deforestation prevention proposals emerging in other importing countries.

Trade panel rules against food sovereignty, Indigenous rights and biodiversity

In the USMCA dispute regarding Mexico's measures against glyphosate and GM corn, the dispute panel released its final report on Dec. 20, 2025. It found against Mexico on every claim it took up, relied on the U.S. version of most disputed facts, invoked questionable science, and enunciated an overly broad definition of trade effects.

IATP input to the 2025 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance of the UNFCCC

The Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) was established at the COP-16 in 2010 to assist the UNFCCC-COP in exercising its functions in relation to the Financial Mechanism of the Convention.

New Paint on Old Barns

This report examines the strategies of 14 meat and dairy companies and four agricultural input companies supplying fertilizer, pesticides, seeds and feed, focusing on two elements: the potential to deliver genuine emissions reductions and the support provided to farmers to make this transition happen.