China’s Pork Miracle? Agribusiness and Development in China’s Pork Industry

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The Need for Feed: China’s Demand for Industrialized Meat and Its Impacts

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Negotiating oppression: A developed country approach to agricultural trade

Comment on the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) draft Strategic Plan

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a 501(c)(3) organization, is pleased to submit this comment. IATP participated in the NNI stakeholder workshop in June, including two breakout sessions on Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) impacts.

Why is the U.S. Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right?

On November 21, 2013 the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” There, all UN member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living.

NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Farmer

Scaling Up Agroecology

If there was a silver lining in the disastrous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development.

EU-US trade deal: A bumper crop for "big food"?

The drive for "regulatory coherence" in the transatlantic trade talks risks pushing food and farming standards down in the U.S. and EU.

From Dumping to Volatility: The Lessons of Trade Liberalization for Agriculture

This piece is an IATP commentary originally published in the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2013.

Agriculture on the Road to Bali

There are several proposals on the WTO’s agricultural negotiations table, but the dominant discussion ahead of December’s Bali Ministerial Conference is the November 2012 proposal put forward by 46 countries under the auspices of the G-33.