Globalization

Exporting Obesity

This collection contains IATPs work on the connection between trade and obesity.

Why the Right to Water is Under Attack

Land grabbing: What happens in China and the United States, and what it means on a global scale

IATP's Jim Harkness gave an address on Fair access to food and land - How to stop global land grabbing in the European Parliment on March 8, 2012. This event was hosted by the Greens.

Governments agree on voluntary rules to control land grabs

Three years of negotiations on guidelines to govern the tenure of land, fisheries and forests (commonly referred to as the Voluntary Guidelines, or VG) came to a successful close on Friday, March 9 in Rome.

EU-India Free Trade Agreement: 'Don’t trade away our lives' say activists

Dehli, India – On February 12, India and the European Union (EU) held their 12th joint summit here.

Corporatizing Water: India's Draft National Water policy

Radio Sustain: December 6, 2011

In this December 6, 2011 episode, Julia Olmstead discusses U.S. exports and why they are not "feeding the world," Jim Harkness speaks on the Occupy movement and Karen Hansen-Kuhn speaks about IATP's aspirations at the Durban climate talks.

Feeding the world, or not

The water, energy and food nexus

As I flew back from Bonn last week, on my way back from the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference (16–18 November), one thing was clear to me. Corporate environmentalism is entrenching itself firmly in the corridors of global governance, and challenging its advance will require new strategies.

Stepping up: Will the G-20 allow the CFS to function? Will other countries allow the G-20 to stop them?

Rome, October 2011 – Multilateralism is in crisis. It is perhaps most evident in the painful and truly frightening failure of governments to come to grips with the implications of climate change. But it was also evident on a much less well-publicized stage in mid-October in Rome, where governments were gathered at the U.N.