Agriculture

Peace Coffee

The Fair-Trade Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy started HeadWaters International as a for-profit company in 1995 to promote sustainable production and fair-trade markets.

Once a Generation: The Search for Universal Food Security

In preparation for the 1996 FAO Food Summit, Karen Lehman detailed how food crisis of the mid-90s had come about, identifying the changes in policy that led to the end of food reserves and supply management programs world-wide.

The Grain Train Robbery of 1996

In late May, in a gritty outer ring settlement of Monterrey, Mexico, over 400 men, women and children stopped a grain train and carried its cargo off to their homes. Shouting "We're hungry!," women hauled off the contraband in buckets and two-year-old children carried it gingerly across the tracks in plastic bags.

World Grain Shortage and the World Food Summit

A memo from Mark Ritchie summarizing the need for a global campaign for supplay managment and grain reserves. This memo led to the drafting of an Action Plan submitted to the FAO in Rome, November 1996.

Freedom to Farm vs. the Environment: The Ecological Implications

By Mark Ritchie. 1996.

NAFTA/WTO Conflict in Agricultural Trade

On July 14,1995, the U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR) requested a dispute resolution panel to hear a complaint under Chapter 20 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). At issue is whether NAFTA or the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules will pertain in trade disputes over protective measures.

Myth #7. NAFTA Will Improve Food Security by Enabling Countries to Import Food Cheaply on the World Market

Sterile Fields:The Impacts Of IPR's And Trade On Biodiversity And Food Security, November 1996

The cultivation of diversity has been incorporated as a high art by human cultures through millenia. With the know-how of generations of experience, farmers have learned to provide food crops well-adapted to local soils and water cycles.

Interview With Karen Lehman From La Jornada, Mexico City

NAFTA and the Great Lakes. A Preliminary Survey of Environmental Implications

IATP partnered with Great Lakes United and the Canadian Environmental Law Association to examine the environmental havoc NAFTA could cause on the Great Lakes. IATP wrote the chapter titled "Case Study 2: NAFTA's Impact on Agriculture in the Great Lakes Basin"