Agribusiness

Securities and Exchange Commission climate-related financial risk rule will benefit investors and companies

This month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to release its final rule on the disclosure of climate-related financial risk and greenhouse gas emissions by U.S. companies, including food and agriculture firms, listed for trade on SEC-regulated exchanges.

Over 100 organizations demand that Mexico resist pressure to backtrack on GM corn ban

Washington, D.C.—Today, leaders from Mexico, the United States and Canada are gathered at the North American Leaders’ Summit, where, among other issues, they will debate the timeline and scope of Mexico’s ban on the cultivation and import of genetically-modified (GM) corn.

Who sets the science? Competing visions for food, farm and climate

The turmoil that has marked the last few years of pandemic and war and the consequent shocks to people’s lives and livelihoods require new approaches to agriculture that plan for disruptions and build in resilience.

Agricultural trade and standards within the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)

IPEF: More than a trade agreement framework? On September 8-9 in Los Angeles, officials from the Office of the U.S.

IATP welcomes SEC climate financial risk disclosure rule as first step in holding companies, including agribusiness, accountable to investors, regulators and the public interest

Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released for public comment a proposed rule on the disclosure of climate-related financial risk by U.S. companies, including food and agriculture firms, listed for trade on SEC-regulated exchanges.

The EU must act on Big Meat and Dairy’s emissions

In our new report, Emissions Impossible Europe: How Europe’s big meat and dairy are heating up the planet, IATP has calculated the emissions of 35 of the largest meat and dairy corporations with headquarters in the European Union (EU) and Switzerland. The findings are alarming.

Throwing good money after bad: Failing Green Revolution program readies billion-dollar fund drive

According to an anonymous inside source, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is preparing a campaign to raise $1 billion in the coming months to fund its promotion of industrialized agriculture through 2030.

Stopping the race to the bottom in trade policy

The following op-ed was published originally on The American Prospect. Republished with permission below.

AGRA Update: Withheld internal documents reveal no progress for Africa’s farmers

Internal evaluations carried out by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), recently obtained by the U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) campaign through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, show no new evidence that AGRA is making progress improving yields, incomes and food security for African farmers.

Solidarity statement in support of Indian farmers' historic protests

U.S. farmers and allied food and justice advocates have joined together to express solidarity with the farmer protests in India against the unjust farm laws that will increase agribusiness' stranglehold over their food systems.