Sustainable Agriculture

Farming in the Dark: Unreliable USDA data jeopardizes a sustainable farming transition

As farmers struggle to adjust to a changing climate that has led to an increased frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events, incomplete or inaccurate public data has become a growing concern, and federal programs designed to provide farmers with information have been pared back.

Meeting EU climate targets: Building sustainable food systems can reduce reliance on risky tech solutions

The debate about the European Union’s 2040 climate target has raised many questions about what is necessary to achieve it.

The EU’s plans to put a price on agriculture emissions

As the rest of the European Union’s economy reduces its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the air is getting thinner for the agriculture sector to escape demands to address the climate pollution caused by our food and agriculture system. 

IATP joins partners in Kenya to reimagine our global agricultural trade system

This week, IATP is in Nairobi hosting a two-day workshop (August 5-6) for the East Africa region on the Agreement on Agriculture Reimagined. This is part of a three-year project to address urgently needed changes to international trade systems to meet the mounting challenges in global food distribution.

First steps on climate and agriculture policy in 2025

Despite the profound impact climate change is already having on farmers and food production, governments have been slow to address escalating climate risks.

Carbon Farming Won't Save the Planet

At first glance, funding climate action through soil carbon credits instead of taxpayer dollars may seem like a win-win solution. But real-world evidence suggests that improving soil health and supporting farmers as they adapt to more sustainable practices would be far more effective.

Food system experts launch project to transform global food trade rules

MINNEAPOLIS—The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is pleased to announce the launch of an ambitious three-year project that will advance urgently needed changes to the global trading system to meet the mounting challenges in global food distribution.

Still Closed Out

More progress needed to connect farmers with federal conservation programs. There has been some positive development for conservation agriculture policy in the U.S. since 2021, but USDA still rejects more than three in four farmer applications to CSP. 

Talking COP27 Episode 3: Time for true solutions

In this episode, hear from IATP Executive Director Sophia Murphy and Director of IATP Europe Shefali Sharma, both of whom will be traveling to Egypt for this year's COP, on the role of civil society groups at COP and the false solutions for climate and agriculture that IATP is working to discredit.

Talking COP27 Episode 1: Two paths for climate and agriculture

Our industrialized food and farming systems are both driving the climate crisis and threatened by it. How did we get here? This episode introduces listeners to that struggle and its climate justice implications in the lead-up to the UNFCCC's 27th annual global climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, COP27.